Rick Scythe x-Usurper, x- Nightshade, x- Death Youth is in my opinion one the best Metal guitarist ever!
What you get from this album is literally a fist in the face. It's Extreme Metal at it's finest. Scythe hailing from Chicago is causing devastation. Scythe's metal onslaught show's no sign of stopping!!
This album is one of those albums that kids in a decade will go back and find this and they will be transported into the metal time machine to old school extreme metal at it's finest. The first song Iron Witch will rip your face off!! The vocals on this song are sort of "growled" but unlike Cannibal Corpse you can understand what he's saying. The song Beware The Scythe is has an old school black metal feel to it, the vocals on this song for some reason remind me of Nifelheim. There's also a bit of 70's hard rock influence which was cool to hear. Tyrannical Stronghold is one of the heaviest track very reminiscent to old Usurper. Tunguska Death Ray is a re-worked song from Rick's old band Nightshade. The instrument's on this album are all killer there really is no flaw. The production is raw yet the instrument's are heard quite well.
Something you won't hear on a lot of metal records you hear today is memorability. Rick is a great songwriter even though these song's are more toward the extreme metal side of things every song sticks in your head. Lyrically this band also is very unique there's a song about Nephilim (ancient giants), new world order, occult, conspiracies, and the weirdest one was about Bohemian Grove "Cremation of Care" ceremony. To me at least these lyrics are very interesting
When you listen to this album remember you will suffer from neck pains after. Unlike all these "new" bands trying to play like the old school bands. Rick is from the old school and he is one of the many musician's who laid the blueprint for all these new bands. YOU MUST BEWARE ... BEWARE THE SCYTHE!!
10/10
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