The previous album from God Dethroned really influenced my musical tastes for quite some time. The combination of aggression and an their incredible knack for melodic hooks was unlike anything I had heard to that point in time. When I heard that the follow up - Bloody Blasphemy - was out, I rushed out and grabbed it as quickly as possible.
On this album God Dethroned continue in the vein of the previous album, but have toned back the melody and have amped up the violence. That's not to say that the melody is completely absent, it's not. It's merely not as frequent, or well executed (except for two songs) as the previous album.
The aggression does work for the bands sound, but it's not what I come to God Dethroned for. I'm here for melodic aggression. Melodic Death metal... not melodeath, melodic death metal... death metal with melody. God Dethroned shown that they are one of the best bands on the planet to play this style at times... this is a glimpse of what that they are capable of.
Songs like Under the Golden Wings of Death, Boiling Blood and A View of Ages are all full on death metal songs with some thrash leanings. They have little to no melody and are here to rip your fucking face off. Songs like Serpent King and Firebreath incorporate a little bit of melody here and there but still fall short of the brilliance this band is capable of.
Where the band really shines though is on The Execution Protocol and Soul Capture 1562, with the latter of those two songs being my favorite song they have ever written. These songs incorporate melody with the death metal in such a fantastic way that I get chills every time I listen to them. These two songs are the reason I bought this album, and without them this album would be a hard pass for me.
For many years this would be the last God Dethroned album I would enjoy. Many years later they would shift their lyrical themes to World War I and then I would regain a lot of interest in their works. But here, this is the last glimpse of what the band was so good at before they devolved into mediocrity for years.
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