Worthy resistance

Resistance is futile. Well, if you've been resisting Dark Throne releases of late- due to the bands detraction from black metal into punk territory- this release is a show of force. The Dark Throne music force, that is. Despite the genre the band dwells in, Fenriz & Nocturno's forceful presence is the one luring you back to the band. If you like the hype & wish for more punkish releases then The Underground Resistance is a sign of recession. The band isn't swearing by this genre any more (or so it seems) but the essence of punk is here. However, what's glaring in this one is the fact that it's a heavy release. That's right- heavy as in 'heavy metal' heavy. You can put it down to the slower, sludgier tracks but as it seems, Dark Throne came & did their thing then got away with it; for a good cause. The re-assurance here is that the band's black metal servings are there (these never got wiped out in the first place) in crusty servings. And being Dark Throne, their subsequent release is already in the works. What?!

Gonna get

I'm so gonna get these 2 releases. I've heard some stuff from both & they sounded like they way they should be- like themselves.

I was off Soilwork since A Predator's Portrait. The releases thereafter were rather lost in definition. No it's not about the guitar tones but the music per se; they sounded like those metal-core (for want of a better adjective) outfits trying too hard to impress when they should know they are impressive to begin with. This is happening  to The Haunted in the meant time, unclear if it's a rite of passage thing for Swedish bands.

Dark Throne had been defiant to their flagship genre for a good three releases but the chaps treated that as a discovery passage. According to them they still sounded like themselves but many of us would disagree after being ingrained by the band's black metal fodder. This isn;t exactly a return to familiar pastures but it's more Dark Throne than what the last three releases could offer. Well at least to me.