Carpathian Wolf aka Al'Hazred who controlled the bass in Melechesch for some years, an alias he might be better known for, is now ready with his second offering from his own band Conspiracy, where he controls all.
The record delivers old school thrashy black metal with a good dose of rock spread around. There are quite some stylistic jumps here and there, as from the first couple of thrashing noisy yet melodic and raw black metal tracks, to the more old school hellish though atmospheric rock n' doomer 'Faith'. Though after some spins it works quite well, with the ugly tunes and a little breathing room in the middle of the inferno. It would be a lie to call any of this album groundbreaking, but it is quite enjoyable, and there are some nice guitarparts scattered around the album, and some headbanging friendly rhythm patterns present, that is always working.
As this is the first material I hear from Conspiracy I might be wrong now, though it sounds like Carpathian Wolf has been using the years in Melechesch very constructive, not only playing with the band, but also been in the game and picking up influences, which is used very subtle and effective during 'Concordat', a nice way of spicing things up with some ethnic influences here and there, Carpathian Wolf is Romanian, even though he now resides in Holland, if I'm not totally mistaken.
At first the album seems messy and noisy and quite bad recorded due to heavy distortion and a dark sound picture. Though the more one listen to the album, the more it opens up and grows, I started out to think it was utter garbage during the first listen, and now I am quite fond of it and have been blasting it a great deal the last days and will continue to do that, a nice offering from Conspiracy which deserves attention of metalheads into old school madness with twists in that and this direction.
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AUTHOR: Nocturnal DK
A Danish metalhead on the way to become old, enjoys most types of metal, though brutality and darkness are mostly preferred, and too modern takes on metal are not always positively looked upon. Have been writing about metal for 10 years in own and at other publications as Fishcomcollective, Ancient Ceremonies, Northern Shadows and now Corazine and the upcoming Terror Propaganda (might have forgotten a few, come and kick my arse!).