Thunderkraft - Totentanz
Svarga Music describes this band as “Ukrainian Industrial Folk Death Metal” and I guess that has enough adjectives to cover all of the areas that Thunderkraft goes on this album. For the most part, Totentanz sounds more like Symphonic Black Metal. This is a keyboard-heavy album and if you remember how overpowering the keyboards were on Emperor’s In the Nightside Eclipse, you know how Totentanz sounds. The guitars are nice and heavy, but once the keyboards kick in, they’re buried almost immediately. If that was all that this album did, it would be a fairly solid release. When Thunderkraft gets “experimental,” things get weird. The song “Dance of the Dead,” for example, starts off with this oddball Techno/Industrial beat and goes into a song that is mostly Symphonic Black Metal, but with odd effects, keyboard parts and other electronic bits thrown in almost at random that only really serve as distractions. This is a case of a band bolting on “experimental” stuff to sound different and having their sound get all fucked up and diluted. If they hadn’t included all of the weird shit, this would have been a better album. Experimentation isn’t bad, but this is a case of trying to be too many different things. You can tell when a band naturally evolved in a new direction. This isn’t it. It sounds forced and unnatural. Totentanz is an album showing a band trying to find an identity. Clearly, they haven’t found it yet. Hopefully, they’ll figure things out and their next album will be better.
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