Revocation has had a totally fascinating previous decade-ish. Their 2016 report Nice Is Our Sin was a straight-up thrash-terpiece, whereas The Outer Ones in 2018 took a tough flip into some otherworldly dying 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 part Revocation has ever achieved up up to now.
New Gods, New Masters appears like a retrospective of Revocation‘s profession filtered by means of their most up-to-date materials. You’ve got acquired dying 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 a bit extra bluntly: New Gods, New Masters is fucking heavy. When you’re into the groovier and chunkier facet 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 Middle. This one’s over 5 minutes of riffs upon riffs that every one fall collectively right into a masterclass of not solely the right way to write an instrumental, however for any guitarist severe about their instrument. And no – there is no huge band jazz part that panders to Hekselman. This track simply shreds.
New Gods, New Masters is spectacular in that it is every part you’d need from Revocation at this level, however a bit extra streamlined. This feels rather less technical than its predecessors and extra targeting the facility of writing a great riff and an important groove. Longtime Revocation followers are positive to search out one thing to like right here, however new followers are actually going to discover a strong entry level into the band’s in depth discography right here as effectively.
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