Deströyer 666 - See You In Hell EP

Release Date: September, 2010
Label: Invictus Productions

TRACK LISTING

1.  See You in Hell
2.  Through the Broken Pentagram

Total playing time:  8:53

November 10, 2010

Reviewer: Chris

Destroyer 666 emerges with a two-track EP hot on the heels of last year’s full-length Defiance that was pretty solid overall. This little EP is to coincide with the band’s tour with fellow black arts bellowers Watain. Australia’s finest black thrash outfit since Hobbs’ Angel of Death has seldom let me down until now.

For the most part the EP is fine, but the title track seems oddly chant-like and somewhat thrown together. When I think of the long lineage of Destroyer 666 and the evil of Unchain the Wolves or Phoenix Rising this just doesn’t seem to fit the dichotomy of the band. It’s an okay song, but nothing really special. The second track titled “Through the Broken Pentagram” is a bit better, providing the speedy reverence we’re used to with the band, but even this track is somewhat ho-hum; for such a strong band this minimal offering would have been much better had the tracks been a bit less rushed-sounding and more in line with what I know Destroyer 666 is capable of putting out at any given time.

The black thrashing is there, but it just seems like these tracks might have been the two you might call filler songs on an otherwise great album. For me it’s not necessarily a letdown as much as a head-scratcher as to 1) why more effort wasn’t put into these songs or 2) why the band even put this out to begin with? It seems they could just as well leave these tracks for inclusion on some Japanese or other Asian import of the album. Either way, it’s a mediocre effort from an otherwise terrific band.

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