HORDES OF THE MORNING STAR
When a band chooses to re-record a whole album and re-release it only two years later, an eyebrow or two will indubitably rise, particularly if it wasn’t so great an album in the first place. Re-recordings give a band an opportunity to address any flaws in the originals but at the risk of being accused of back-pedalling and exploiting their fanbase. And so Texan black metal bastards Hordes Of The Morning Star have re-recorded their debut album ‘Consummatum Est’ for the purpose of re-releasing it as a digi-pack with little more than an improvement in the production to justify its re-release. While Hordes Of The Morning Star’s guitar tone is heavier than that of black metal and the occasion guttural wrench in the vocal hints towards the death metal end of the monochrome spectrum, their compositions are largely minimalist and predictable, meaning that a lot of the songs sound very similar. But that simplicity in structure bears much purpose on a few of the tracks, particularly ‘To Sire A Slave’, ‘Ashes’, ‘Sacramant’ and closer ‘Carrion Throne’. Other than these few tracks – four out of nine does not an album make – there’s not really much else on offer. Hordes Of The Morning Star should have left the album well alone and got on with writing and recording some new material that proves that they can write a bunch of blackened blasphemies that are as intense and developed as their musicianship and avoid the risk of disappearing into the black mist…
LABEL:
FORMAT:
Metalhit
Album
CONSUMMATUM EST
Review by Jason Guest
RUNNING TIME:
35:23
RELEASE DATE:
17th July 2012
TRACK LISTING
1) Illuminate
2) To Sire a Slave
3) Ashes
4) Sentinel
5) Sacrament
6) Altar
7) Holocaust
8) Cut My Throat and Bury Me
9) Carrion Throne
2) To Sire a Slave
3) Ashes
4) Sentinel
5) Sacrament
6) Altar
7) Holocaust
8) Cut My Throat and Bury Me
9) Carrion Throne
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
USA
"While Hordes Of The Morning Star’s guitar tone is heavier than that of black metal and the occasion guttural wrench in the vocal hints towards the death metal end of the monochrome spectrum, their compositions are largely minimalist and predictable..."
