"Dawn of the Damned" features a raw and powerful sound production, which suits the material well. The latter is a speed metal influenced melodic death metal track with Destruction vocalist Schmier guesting on additional vocals. other highlights include "Darkness Be My Guide" and the two closing tracks "The Return of a Long Lost Soul" and "Devil's Spawn Attack". Listen to the main riff of the title track and tell me if that´s not brilliance incarnate. Some of the riffs are highly impressive and quite intricate. The rhythm section is solid and energetic, and the two guitarists deliver sharp melodic tremolo riffs, blistering melodic solos, and when the songs call for it, heavy mid-paced death metal riffing too. The instrumental part of the music is of high class. Lead vocalist Anders Strokirk has a raw blackened snarling type delivery, which is intelligible and powerful. The listener is treated to melodic blackened death metal, which sometimes is more black than death, and sometimes visa versa. Stylistically "Dawn of the Damned" is unmistakably the sound of Necrophobic and a natural continuation of the preceding releases by the band. It´s the successor to "Mark Of The Necrogram" from 2018 and features one lineup change since the predecessor as bassist Alex Friberg has been replaced by Allan Lundholm.
The album was released through Century Media Records in October 2020. "Dawn of the Damned" is the 9th full-length studio album by Swedish melodic black metal/blackened death metal act Necrophobic.
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