Pantokrator
Marching Out Of Babylon
Swedish death metal veterans Pantokrator finally grant us their fourth studio album after six long years of writing, riffing and perfecting. "Marching Out of Babylon" is far from Pantokrator's first rodeo on the bucking bronco of brutal, bone-breaking music. Pantokrator have been crafting metal mayhem for nearly 25 years. They once more proudly deliver a new wave of metal combining grinding, jarring blast beats that tear at the listeners flesh and rend their skin, while incorporating bone-splintering and skull-splitting slams alongside absolutely visceral, throat-shredding screams. The immense and nigh- unfathomable levels of heaviness and technicality Pantokrator bring to the table is the spitting image of their namesake: "All powerful and Almighty". Pantokrator embodies their moniker by reigning miles above the likes of their metallic peers melding aggression,technique, and musical prowess. With calm, serene and ethereal instrumentation clashing with their proclivity to punish the listener with moments of backbending, spine-shredding brutality. "A new world is born as the old one dies; not by flood, but by burning skies."