### Zonaria: The cancer empire

#### 12/11/08 || theProphet

Sit back, relax, you’re feeling veeeeeeeeery sleepy. Close your eyes. Let your mind wander off towards happy, mellow thoughts about sheep and bunnies. Picture inside your head the best review intro ever written. When I snap my fingers, you will wake up and just continue reading. Look at me, the clever hypnotist, telling people to close their eyes, when my only means of communication is through written text…

*SNAP*

Music- and production wise, Zonaria sounds very professional indeed. Unfortunately though, they also sound professionally boring. The lack of originality displayed on “The Cancer Empire” is absolutely baffling. I mean, it’s obvious that these guys know how to play their instruments, but if all you needed in order to be a great musician and create awesome music was to practice seven hours a day, well then anybody could play in a great band. It’s safe to say that Zonaria lacks the famous “it”.

Keep in mind though that you can create good music without being inventive all the time, it’s just that Zonaria fails to do so. There’s undoubtedly some good, albeit incredibly unoriginal, ideas on here, like the beginning of “Slaughter is Passion”, but a good riff here and there just doesn’t fucking cut it. I can’t for the life of me understand why anybody should spend money on this when there’s like a hundred better albums that sounds very much the same as this. And another thing, the cover isn’t exactly anything I would have on my wall…

To sum this up, “the Cancer Empire” is a completely unnecessary blackened death offering, yet not completely worthless. You might like this more than I do, chances are that you won’t.

5 out of 10.

You see what I did here? I didn’t write a funny score to symbolize how boring this album is…

- Information
- Released: 2008
- Label: Century Media
- Website: www.zonaria.com
- Band
- Simon Berglund: vocals, guitar
- Emil Nyström: guitar
- Markus Åkebo: bass
- Emanuel “Cebbe” Isaksson: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Slaughter is Passion
- 02. Praise the Eradication
- 03. Crowning King Cancer
- 04. Contra Mundum
- 05. Termination Process
- 06. At War with the Inferior
- 07. From the Abysmal Womb
- 08. Damnation Dressed in Flesh
- 09. Humanity Vs Sanity
- 10. The Icon and the Faceless