If you read interviews or reviews of this band you always find that the guitarist is the brother of Jon Nødtveit of Dissection. I'm quite fed up with that and I guess the band is too. Will he always be compered to his big brother? Well I refuse to do so. Who cares if his brother is famous, he doesn't get a better musician because of that! Another thing that came out of the reviews and int's was that this is a very good release. Someone even called Swordmaster one of the 4 best acts from Sweden. Well I got curious and bought it.
I must say that I got disappointed. It's far from as good as everyone said. After my first reaction had gone the album was finished (only 14 min. is shameful) so i listened to it again. Hmm it wasn't bad. quite good actually. Not as good as said, but still some very good stuff. With this being their debut MCD thefuture looks bright for the boys. The music is fast Death or black metal with good riffs and very good drumwork. Nothing really original, all have been done before, but perhaps not in this combination. I all fits together nicely and is good produced. The layout could have been much better, and with high class production and good material Swordmaster can become something great. Oh it's just fucking 14min. long!
Rated

Postmortem Tales

Fast B.M. in the same style as the debut MCD which means heavy thrash influences. The production is better and there are more material then just 14 min. this time so it's well worth the money. I don't quite like the vocals, but I have several friends who loves it and rates it as the best album this year. I don't quite agree, but it's a darn good album and it keeps getting better everytime.
Rated


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