Krux – II

1. Serpent
2. Devil Sun
3. Sea Of Doom
4. Lex Lucifero
5. Pirates
6. Depressive Strokes Of Indigo
7. Too Close To Evil
8. The Big Empty
“YOU WANT THE BEST, YOU GOT THE BEST:
THE DOOMEST BAND IN THE WORLD’ KRUX!
God doomned! He did it again! ‘He’ is Leif Edling, bassist/anchorman of Candlemass, and ‘it’ is a mind blowing album of blood clotting, epic powerdoom that degrades a post-nucleair warfare to a silly game of scrabble. The ‘again’ aspect is the fact that the first album of was also an incredible masterpiece of doom that was even more haunting, imposing and thrilling than the comeback album of Candlemass, which was not worst record in doom metal history either. It doesn’t happen every year that I’m completely blown away by a doom metal album, but this time beats the auditive crap out of me. The last time I was so heavily impressed by a doom metal album, was by the first album of’ .
What makes this so damn good? These six guys from Sweden has all other music jobs, the band features (ex-)members from Entombed, Grave, Project Hate, Arch Enemy and Carptree, and they hardly have time for . The lesser time one have, the better the results will be. Not in the last place because of singer Mats Leven. He’s also singing the stars from the sky in Therion like a David Coverdale in a bombastic metalband, but his real lung capacities and larynx flexibility is shown in . His ‘air raid siren of doom’ makes even ordinary songs like “Too Close To Evil” an exhilarating journey of churning doom. Mats’ ‘breath of doom’ is not the only distinguished factor in , also Carl Westholm’s sinister keys and organ sounds is way more haunting and intriguing than his normal, more conventional keyboard-job in Carptree. But the best thing of is the explosive monsterlike riffs, the enslaving grooves and the horror-like atmospheres. The eight songs, all timing between the five and eight minutes, are erupting with hellish dooms of thunder.
is just one hundred percent pure fucking doom. No death metal influences, no progressive escapades (unlike the first album, which contains the psychedelic jam “Lunochod”), no flirtations with drone, funeral and other sub-doom genres, not even the typical heavy metal elements are easily traceable. is as doom as Trouble was in the eighties, not coincidentally one of ‘ main influences. No matter how much I like Trouble (get on with that new album, damn it!), as mighty awe-inspiring as they had never been, not even in their doomest days. Whether this is better than the first album I really cannot say, but this must be at least the doom record of the year. = The New Doom Of The 21st Century.”
Lords Of Metal, Evil Dr. Smith
LP album (Black)
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