### Hammer Persuasion: Necropsy of the human mind

#### 28/11/13 || gk

This is some melodic heavy metal with the occasional death metal part and completely over the top vocals that don’t really fit the music. There’s a death metal growl and a black metal shriek that often seem to be competing with each other in terms of volume. There’s a bunch of other vocal styles that creep up as the album plods along too but it sounds like the vocalist’s voice broke halfway through the recording session and he just continued regardless. The music itself is pretty standard melodic metal with nothing that really stands out. There’s also a sense of having heard all these riffs before in much better songs. The band needs a better vocalist and better songs. There might be an audience for this kind of middle of the road metal that’s neither here nor there but overall there’s nothing here that I can recommend.

4/10: Mostly boring, occasionally bad.