Axis Of Advance
The List
[Osmose]


Axis of Advance have returned for a third strike upon the once feared landscape that was known as metal. A brutal and uncompromising genre at one time, but one that has now turned into a clown painted, faerie choked meadow of faggotry and repetition. Onto this field of dishonor rolls the Axis of Advance juggernaut, spelling the end, the final doom, of this degenerate realm of music. The precision riffs of Wor and Vermin rumble and coil endlessly, the sound of the massive engine that spews black exhaust into the air, the aura and essence of the oily clouds permeating everything, leaving the grim little faerie trolls choking and gagging. The battering of J. Read's drumkit is unyielding, unstoppable as the leviathan treads crush all in their march, leaving a wasteland of mud, rock, splintered wood and pools of blood from the feeble gay meadow inhabitants in it's passing, caring not, devestating any and all in it's path without pause. Above and beyond all are the screams and exultations of the warmaster Wor, commanding the total destruction of this supposedly evil and cult genre, ripping the life, the soul, the humanity from it, leaving nothing but a holocaust of what we once knew as metal.

The 8 songs on "The List" are stripped down compared to the previous campaign "Strike", but no less effective, in fact they gain in impact and power. The annihilation is not delayed or drawn out, but immediate and crushing. Each track is encased perfectly in it's cartridge of time, primed perfectly for maximum damage and carnage. Track after track, the barrage commences, and you are forced to retreat further down the road to total annihilation, away from what was safe. This is not to say this album is a choatic wall of sound as exmplified by the normal run of the mill 'war metal' band, for it is not. It is crystalline in it's machinations, polished in it's monstrosity. This album feel's much heavier than "Strike", though the brutality remains at the same stratospheric level. The difference is the overpowering sense of doom, the black aura that emanates from your speakers as "The List" plays, as the guitar and bass tones and low end are much more apparent than on "Strike", and the evolution of Axis Of Advance riff structures into behemoths of power and leaden cruelty create such an oppressive atmosphere that surrender is the only option. One of the best metal albums ever made. Period.

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