DEMONICAL — World Domination (review)

DEMONICAL — World Domination album cover Album · 2020 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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"World Domination" is the sixth full-length studio album by Swedish death metal act Demonical. The album was released through Agonia Records in October 2020. It´s the successor to "Chaos Manifesto" from March 2018. There have been a couple of lineup changes since the predecessor as drummer Kennet Englund has been replaced by a returning Ronnie Bergerstål and lead vocalist Alexander Högbom has been replaced by Christofer Säterdal.

Stylistically this sounds more like 2011-2013-era Demonical, than it sounds like "Chaos Manifesto" (although some of the epic elements of that album are also present here). We´re back to the hybrid old school Swedish death metal meets melodic death metal style (basically Grave meets Dismember) which Demonical played on "Death Infernal" (2011) and "Darkness Unbound" (2013)...or maybe just a new combination of the known Demonical elements. The HM-2 guitar tone is dominant as ever in the soundscape and provides one of the elements of Demonical´s identity.

Demonical understand how to compose short, effectful, and relatively varied death metal releases. Their tendency to genre hop with the old school death metal styles isn´t always succesful, but no one can accuse their brand of death metal for being one-dimenional. A 3 - 3.5 star (65%) rating is warranted.
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