PANZERCHRIST

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Panzerchrist are a Danish death metal band. They've always had an ever changing lineup, but Michael Enevoldsen has always been in the band. Members that have been in and out of the band include other musicians that have taken part in Illdisposed which Enevoldsen was also involved with. The most recognizable one is vocalist Bo Sommer, Illdisposed's sole remaining founding member. He's been involved with Panzerchrist from 2000 to 2008. Besides him, the other big musician involved in Panzerchrist is Reno Killerich who has also played in Dimmu Borgir, Old Man's Child, Hate Eternal, Vile, and Exmortem. He also left the band in 2008; his work in Roomservice and Battalion Beast is considered session work.

Besides these two, the band has gone through two bass players, four other vocalists, five other drummers, and ten guitarists. Michael Enevoldsen himself has played drums, bass, and keyboards.

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PANZERCHRIST albums / top albums

PANZERCHRIST Six Seconds Kill album cover

3.50 | 2 ratings

Six Seconds Kill
Death Metal 1996

PANZERCHRIST Outpost - Fort Europa album cover

3.58 | 2 ratings

Outpost - Fort Europa
Death Metal 1999

4.36 | 3 ratings

Soul Collector
Death Metal 2000

4.07 | 3 ratings

Room Service
Death Metal 2003

PANZERCHRIST Battalion Beast album cover

4.19 | 4 ratings

Battalion Beast
Death Metal 2006

PANZERCHRIST Regiment Ragnarok album cover

3.83 | 4 ratings

Regiment Ragnarok
Death Metal 2011

3.50 | 1 ratings

7th Offensive
Death Metal 2013

3.50 | 1 ratings

Last of a Kind
Death Metal 2023

PANZERCHRIST Maleficium - Part 1 album cover

3.50 | 1 ratings

Maleficium - Part 1
Death Metal 2024

PANZERCHRIST EPs & splits

0.00 | 0 ratings

Forever Panzer
Death Metal 2007

PANZERCHRIST All Witches Shall Burn album cover

3.50 | 1 ratings

All Witches Shall Burn
Death Metal 2024

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PANZERCHRIST Bello: Room Service / Soul Collector album cover

4.50 | 1 ratings

Bello: Room Service / Soul Collector
Death Metal 2007

PANZERCHRIST Himmelfartskommando album cover

3.50 | 1 ratings

Himmelfartskommando
Death Metal 2008

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PANZERCHRIST Maleficium - Part 1

Album · 2024 · Death Metal

UMUR

"Maleficium - Part 1" is the ninth full-length studio album by Danish death metal act Panzerchrist. The album was released through Emanzipation Productions in December 2024. It´s the successor to "Last of a Kind" from July 2023, although the two full-length studio albums are bridged by the January 2024 "All Witches Shall Burn" EP. There has been one lineup change since "Last of a Kind" as drummer Danni Jelsgaard has been replaced by Ove Lungskov.

Stylistically the material on "Maleficium - Part 1" continue the blackened death metal style of "Last of a Kind", but with more focus on the death metal part of Panzerchrist´s sound. The snarling blackened vocals of lead vocalist Sonja Rosenlund Ahl still points in a black metal direction and there are riffs here and there which are also undeniably in the black metal camp, but "Maleficium - Part 1" is still predominantly a fast-paced, aggressive, and brutal death metal release (just with an added blackened edge). Behemoth´s early 00s albums are a valid reference, and if you remove most of the melodic leads and harmonies from the music of artists like Unanimated and Necrophobic (which of course you can´t really do, as they are pillars of the music of those artists), you´re in the vicinity of what you hear on "Maleficium - Part 1".

Panzerchrist successfully balance the different genre elements and create a sound of their own. It´s not a particularly unique sound, but the combination of brutal and fast-paced death metal (which occasionally takes me back to the early 00s releases by Panzerchrist) and more cold, aggressive, and at times even epic black metal works pretty well for them. Ahl´s vocals are also very well performed and adds a lot to the listening experience. She means business and there´s no doubt about it. The occasional use of eerie keyboard sections is quite nice for the variation of the album. "Weak Is The Flesh" is a good example of keyboards adding a lot of atmosphere.

"Maleficium - Part 1" features a raw, brutal, and detailed sound production, which suits the material perfectly. This is arguably a very well produced release. The high level musicianship and effective and memorable songwriting are definitely not negatives either and "Maleficium - Part 1" is upon conclusion a high quality release from Panzerchrist. A 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.

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PANZERCHRIST All Witches Shall Burn

EP · 2024 · Death Metal

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"All Witches Shall Burn" is an EP release by Danish death metal act Panzerchrist. The EP was released through Emanzipation Productions in January 2024. It bridges the gap between Panzerchrist´s eighth- and ninth full-length studio albums "Last of a Kind" (July 2023) and "Maleficium - Part 1" (December 2024). The four tracks on the 19.51 minutes long EP were recorded during the sessions for "Last of a Kind" and are a continuation of the witch/inquisition themed lyrical concept of "Last of a Kind".

No surprise of course that the material is in a similar blackened death metal style as the one found on "Last of a Kind". Panzerchrist must have had one hell of a headache picking out the material to be featured on the album and which tracks should be left off, because there´s nothing wrong with the quality of the material featured on "All Witches Shall Burn". This is not just some leftover album session EP, featuring odd or slighly sub par tracks which weren´t of a good enough quality to be included on the album. These songs could just as well have been added and other album tracks left off. In that regard Panzerchrist are an incredibly consistent unit.

The EP is well produced (again of course featuring a sound production similar to the sound production found on "Last of a Kind"). Brutal, raw, epic, and detailed. Just the right sound production for this type of material. It´s overall a good quality release from Panzerchrist and a 3.5 star (70%) is well deserved.

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PANZERCHRIST Last of a Kind

Album · 2023 · Death Metal

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"Last Of A Kind" is the eigth full-length studio album by Danish death metal act Panzerchrist. The album was released through Emanzipation Productions in July 2023. It´s the successor to "7th Offensive" from July 2013, so it´s been 10 years since we´ve last heard from Panzerchrist. Only band founder/bassist Michael Enevoldsen remains from the lineup who recorded the predecessor. Sonja Rosenlund Ahl has been added as the new lead vocalist, which marks the first time that Panzerchrist have had a female lead vocalist.

It´s not something you notice though, as Rosenlund Ahl has an aggressive blackened snarling growl, which could just as well have been delivered by a male singer. Stylistically Panzerchrist continue the blackened death metal style they initiated on "7th Offensive". They used to be a more pure death metal act, but in the last 10-15 years they´ve started to incorporate a blackened edge to their music. It´s all delivered with sharp precision and an authentic old school death metal feel, and there´s some nice morbid lead work on the album too, which is good for the variation of the album.

"Last Of A Kind" features a well sounding production job, and upon conclusion it´s a good quality release from Panzerchrist. I can´t say I appreciate this new blackened direction much and I much prefer their old brutal and fast-paced death metal approach (but that´s just my subjective opinion), but there´s enough quality here to warrant a 3.5 star (70%) rating.

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PANZERCHRIST 7th Offensive

Album · 2013 · Death Metal

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"7th Offensive" is the 7th full-length studio album by Danish death metal act Panzerchrist. The album was released through Listenable Records in July 2013. After a longer hiatus Panzerchrist released "Regiment Ragnarok" in 2011 but although "7th Offensive" was released relatively shortly after that (2 years between albums is pretty normal these days), a lot has happened to the lineup in those few years. Panzerchrist was always a pretty unstable band when it came to the lineup, but this time around there have been more changes than usual as only band founder Michael Enevoldsen (here using the alias Panzergeneral) remains from the lineup who recorded "Regiment Ragnarok (2011)". New faces are Simon Schilling (drums), Nils Petersen (guitars), and Søren Lønne (vocals). Enevoldsen handles bass and keyboards.

The music on the album is relatively brutal death metal, but it´s not without melodic moments, and it´s actually relatively catchy for the style. New vocalist Søren Lønne is a pretty standard deep growling and relatively unintelligible singer, and his singing style suits the music well. The musicianship is overall on a decent level, but to my ears new drummer Simon Schilling´s drumming style is a bit of an issue. Maybe he has been instructed to not play any fills or to play as lifeless as possible, but he sounds so much like a machine, that I initially thought that the drums were programmed. An assumption which was further fueled by the artificial drum sound. Especially the cymbals/hi-hat and the snare drum sound like they were programmed, so there´s an issue with the sound production too.

The material is generally well written and for the genre relatively varied, and as usual the lyrics focus on war, which songtitles like "Panzer the 7th Offensive", "The Stronghold of Hill 666", and "Napalm Alarm", are a testament to. If I have to compare the music style on "7th Offensive" to some of the band´s previous releases, it would be the first couple of albums that I think about, and neither the direct predecessor nor the Bo Summer fronted albums.

So it´s an album with both good sides and bad sides, but overall it´s a decent quality release and if the monotone drumming doesn´t bother you, you´ll probably enjoy it a bit more than I do. Personally I expected a bit more, and I definitely don´t count "7th Offensive" among the band´s best releases, but a 3 - 3.5 star (65%) rating is still deserved.

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PANZERCHRIST Six Seconds Kill

Album · 1996 · Death Metal

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I am a giant fan of Panzerchrist. They've made some of the best death metal of the last decade with Battalion Beast being among my all time favorites in the genre. But in the 90's, Michael Enevoldsen's ever changing ragtag Danish gang actually made some pretty good death metal as well. Their first album, Six Seconds Kill, easily got overshadowed by some of the bigger albums of the decade (Cryptopsy's None So Vile was released the very same year) that this band could have easily fallen into obscurity had they not released more music three years later.

But what we have here on Six Seconds Kill is essentially Bolt Thrower poked with a cattle prod a few too many times. The music here, like Bolt Thrower has that crushing "steam roller" sound in their riffing; it's very heavy. Meanwhile, they also love their war lyrics. But Panzerchrist play faster and have a more distinct lead guitar than Bolt Thrower does; and while Bolt Thrower's war lyrics seem to be more nostalgic, Panzerchrist's lyrics are just straight up misanthropic here on this album. The lyrics on Six Seconds Kill are backed up by a meanacing sounding vocalist who has some variety in his voice as he issues out shrieks and growls and is really fun to listen to throughout the album as a result.

The instruments also hold their weight in the mix as well. The guitar riffs are absolutely relentless and heavy, the drums are extremely tight and furiously played, and together they create a well crafted mix of sonic warfare. However, the tracks here seem to have the glaring problem that makes them kinda blur together and be not quite as memorable. There isn't a lot of musical variety between the songs and there isn't a lot of qualities that help any of them stand out with the glaring exception being the keyboard parts of "Halls of Oblivion". With repeated listens though, picking out favorite songs becomes easier such as my favorites "Winterlands" and "Halls of Oblivion". On the flip side, it's also easier to pick out what's weaker such as the shorter track "Panzer".

I still say this is an album worth checking out if you're a fan of older death metal. There's definitely some good times to be had here, and Enevoldsen and Lasse Hoile on drums and vocals respectively are the biggest stars of the album, though the riffs are definitely no joke either though they are again rather hard to remember on a single listen. Definitely their weakest so far, but it was also their first and Panzerchrist have a string of excellent albums to be released after the turn of the millennium. Six Seconds Kill is a nice album to start out a full investigation of Panzerchrist's discography, though their material gets way better after this.

(80/100)