Revocation has had a completely fascinating previous decade-ish. Their 2016 file Nice Is Our Sin was a straight-up thrash-terpiece, whereas The Outer Ones in 2018 took a tough flip into some otherworldly demise steel. Then got here the sinister vile-ness that was Netherheaven in 2022, which is adopted by the band’s latest album New Gods, New Masters – a seeming marriage of every thing Revocation has ever accomplished up so far.
New Gods, New Masters seems like a retrospective of Revocation‘s profession filtered by way of their most up-to-date materials. You’ve got acquired demise steel ragers like “Sarcophagi Of The Soul” and “Dystopian Vermin” alongside some excessive steel legends bringing an added layer of chaos to the combo – “Confines Of Infinity” that includes Travis Ryan of Cattle Decapitation, “Cronenberged” that includes Jonny Davy of Job for a Cowboy, and “Buried Epoch” that includes Luc Lemay of Gorguts.
Or to place it slightly extra bluntly: New Gods, New Masters is fucking heavy. For those who’re into the groovier and chunkier aspect of Revocation that flirts with wrist-breaking technicality, that is your album.
Then there’s the instrumental “The All Seeing” that includes jazz participant Gilad Hekselman, who performed with Pat Metheny at The Kennedy Heart. This one’s over 5 minutes of riffs upon riffs that each one fall collectively right into a masterclass of not solely easy methods to write an instrumental, however for any guitarist severe about their instrument. And no – there isn’t any massive band jazz part that panders to Hekselman. This music simply shreds.
New Gods, New Masters is spectacular in that it is every thing you’d need from Revocation at this level, however slightly extra streamlined. This feels rather less technical than its predecessors and extra focused on the ability of writing an excellent riff and a fantastic groove. Longtime Revocation followers are positive to search out one thing to like right here, however new followers are definitely going to discover a stable entry level into the band’s in depth discography right here as properly.
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