Coroner

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Finally got round to a first full listen to this last night. Some parts are amazing, some less so, and most often that comes down to what, on first listen, felt like uninspired patches of vox & lyrics. For the most part loved it though, so those gripes may yet evaporate.

[Faustus]

'Sacrificial Lamb' is the best song losing half of it's length after it's great versebridgechorus X2. That pinch harmonic in the second chorus though, whallop. The album is trippy catchy though. This is what a great band is capable of in their later years simply what Coroner have did. 'Sacrificial Lamb' and 'Trinity' are just such rifftastic class and I'm reminded of Death's song 'Flesh and The Power It Holds' in 'Transparent Eye'. Some of the tech metal dark side has a smoothed out ambience and has been shed for thrashy catchiness but this comeback is as successful as fellow Swiss band Celtic Frost's 'Monotheist'. The Keith Emerson style keyboard solo in closing jam 'Prolonging' is the perfect outro.