Nightrage – “Descent Into Chaos”
Tomas Lindberg and Marios Iliopoulos return to prove that the debut “Sweet Vengeance” was no accident. Once again, the band (and they are a real band now) sounds very good. From the blastbeat opener “Being Nothing” to “Frozen,” with it’s clean-vocals parts, to “Solus”, an instrumental number, Nightrage is coming along just fine. They mix thrash with death metal with heavy metal and sound pretty electrifying and melodic, without sounding happy and poppy. I hope Tomas stays with this band because this is a group that has a musical future. Everything is right here and there are no weak moments. Definitely a good follow-up to the debut. The novelty of the debut is not as strong here, but that’s expected. The substance is still very good. My only complaint is the stupid “metal” artwork: the same old suicide/murder stuff. Ah, well, nobody is perfect. Just stop trying to “shock” people, guys. The five o’clock news already takes care of that.