Carnal Agony – Back From The Grave Review: A Power Thrash Metal band from Sweden. July 10th, 2020, the band independently released their second studio album, Back From The Grave, which would gratify fans of Sabaton, Powerwolf, Blind Guardian, and Rhapsody of Fire. and promoted through VladPRomotions PR.
Carnal Agony – Back From The Grave Review opens and discusses the FIRST SIN: THE STRINGS/KEYS. which consists of a combination of sharp and larger-than-life choruses/rhythms, with clean and melodic sections, fret-board solos, crunching bass lines and keyboard sections
Let’s talk about the SECOND SIN: THE VOCALS, which involves growling/harsh, loud, heavy, gritty, and smooth vocals.
Moving on to the THIRD SIN: THE PERCUSSIONS, which delves into the vast world of straightforward drumming with various tempos and beats.
In our following discussion about the band’s musical work, we will focus on the FOURTH SIN, the overall DISCUSSION of the album. As soon as the play button is pressed, one is welcome to the intro track THE REBIRTH, which welcomes the listener with a healthy, clean-melodic riffing/epic war anthem drum-roll instrumentation introduction
Continuing with the second song BACK FROM THE GRAVE, which is the first song following the intro piece, where the listener is welcome to the rest of the eleven songs (the last track is an instrumental outro), which has a nice flowing feel throughout the release, not just giving the listener reliable, strongly composed pieces, but capturing the sense of the concept of the story within the lyrics and music and one howling deliverance of giving the listener an enjoyable album from start to finish.
BACK FROM THE GRAVE is an entertaining, catchy/hooky riff, harmonies, sing-a-long choruses, catchy beats, fantastic vocals and instrumentation playing, the headbanging anthem of powerful-energetic songs, strong devilmanship that melts the substantial essence of epic/symphonic power metal, thrash metal and some nod of Lordi, pop-rock, Gothic metal and horror metal within CARNAL AGONY music.
Reaching the sixth track, LUNA, the song has a power-gothic (love metal) ballet feel. In contrast, in the eighth and the ninth tracks, LOVE WILL TEAR YOU APART and HIGHER: the sound of the songs changes in tone and comes more of this symphonic power metal with the 1980s RAINBOW/WHITSNAKE DNA wrapped around both songs.
Undoubtedly, for any metal/rock fan and feel of this Werewolf love story and beauty and the beast concept, by the time you listen to this release after a few times, you will be (like me) singing along to all these catchy/addicted songs!
I wanted to share our thoughts and MEMORABILIA on the FIFTH SIN. The whole thing; the artwork, music, sound, etc. A melodic power thrash metal that delivers a Halloween epic concept album that will keep your ears rocking and entertained from start to finish.
Let’s discuss the ARTWORK of the SIXTH SIN. Fun and epic while breaking away from the seriousness of things, and truly captures the lyrical theme within the music.
Finally, the review will close with the last sin, the SEVENTH SIN, the DISRELISH, and the closing piece, THE ASCENSION. With nothing to disrelish within the musical world of CARNAL AGONY, we can move on with the instrumental outro piece, THE ASCENSION, which provides the listener with an instrumentation of soft guitar and keyboard outro. This concludes the Carnal Agony – Back From The Grave Review.
Back From The Grave Song-listing:
- The Rebirth
- Back from the Grave
- The Cellardoor
- The Witching Hour
- Werewolf of Steel
- Luna
- For the Horde
- Love Will Tear You Apart
- Higher
- The Nightmare Never Stops
- Bane of the Light
- Raise the Dead
- The Ascension
Carnal Agony Members:
- David Johagen (vocals)
- Mathias Wallin (guitars, bass guitar and keyboards)
- Pär-Olof Persson (guitars)
