Excellent and creative black metal album from this Australian band, their third, released by IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS in 2024. An intrepid album that sways with doomy riffs, deft transitions and hateful blasts that flaunt with death metal. On the face of it, diverse influences such as Burzum, Clandestine Blaze, Hellhammer, Urfaust subtly intact, with indirect elements lifted from an appreciation of select heavy metal, prog, rock and roll and punk. This one contains mystery. Vicious, tough and stirring, but totally weird and psyched out in parts. Definitely the best Tyrannic album to date, production and writing wise. Just under 50 mins to sink into. Doesn't try to sound European or anything - the eccentric feel of best aloof Aus metal, this has.
FROM THE LABEL:
Now back to a power-trio, TYRANNIC continue the chaos-harnessed trajectory of its predecessor with their third album, Tyrannic Desolation. Aptly titled, there are indeed many moments of desolation across the eight-song / 48-minute record; while one could liken them to "doom" in its most skeletal sense, those moments stomp down and ring out with seemingly random rancor, as if the players had pushed their primitive pulse to its limit and then tumble to a rumbling plod. But, such usage simply underlines the very madness running rampant across Tyrannic Desolation. Taking treacherous turns as often as they left a bestial burst run uncomfortably long, TYRANNIC take demonic pleasure in the seemingly scattershot songwriting they employ. And just like Mortuus Decadence, A LOT happens across Tyrannic Desolation - and those endlessly rolling / roiling screeds of physicality continue to mutate in a manner most bizarre. If anything, Tyrannic Desolation by comparison imparts a greater sense of space and then hammers away any last vestige of "hook" or riff or whatever...and somehow, it eerily beckons further investigation, especially when faced with the vampiric-castle soloing found on "Dance On Graves Chained to the Labyrinth." Again, MADNESS.
With their third full-length, TYRANNIC prove that these idiosyncrasies are no mere fluke, and the wild & weird terrain trod by the likes of old Samael, early Celtic Frost / Hellhammer, Hungary's Tormentor, Beherit, Brazilian iconoclasts like Impurity and Sextrash, or even very earliest Mayhem is very much also theirs. More cracked, more broken, more thirsty & miserable: this is Tyrannic Desolation!
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