Welcome to the LOUDEST DOT COM ON THE PLANET!
KNAC.COM News Reviews and More Watch The Latest Videos Buy KNAC T-shirts and More


REVOCATION The Outer Ones

By Nathan Dufour, Great White North
Monday, November 26, 2018 @ 6:19 AM


- advertisement -
REVOCATION
The Outer Ones

2018, Metal Blade




REVOCATION get closer to being a progressive death metal band all the time. You know, instead of being a death metal minded prog band. Give a few spins to The Outer Ones (or clicks, I guess) and see just what I mean.

Album number 7 and never having released a bad album, The Outer Ones sees REVOCATION digging deep into the death metal side of their sound instead of peppering it amongst various techy thrashisms and guitar heroics. Not to be confused with a simpler approach, but definitely more streamlined, with David Davidson clipping the more jazz influenced playing of prior efforts in favour of a more pure and distilled groove. Listening casually is not an option here - REVOCATION demand your attention.

Third track “Blood Atonement”, for example, somehow recalls the airy and ethereal intro of the best of the 80s before somehow channeling Benton and GOJIRA at once. It’s a thing of beauty, with an off kilter groove and drums that pop and weave around the riffs darting in and out of your ear holes.

The title track is a face melter and paced perfectly in the running order of the album, balancing the prog tendencies of REVOCATION with the death metal they are so clearly embracing this time around. The band shows no signs of slowing, nor of stagnation. The ideas keep flowing and hopefully they do for a long time.

As stated, take this one for a spin. Sit down with it. Buy it a coffee. With The Outer Ones, REVOCATION have another hit. If the band was previously a little too meedly for you then you should definitely get in here. Then work backwards. You know, like in the old days.

4.0 Out Of 5.0






















Back to Top

 

 

 Recent Reviews
GEOFF TATE, ADRIAN VANDENBERG In Houston, TX With Photos!
MIDNIGHT Hellish Expectations
AVENGED SEVENFOLD In Cleveland, OH With Photos!
KK'S PRIEST, LA GUNS, BURNING WITCHES In Ft. Lauderdale, FL
RIOT V Mean Streets
SKELETAL REMAINS Fragments Of The Ageless
EXHORDER Defectum Omnium
LIZZY BORDEN In Los Angeles With Photos!
MEANSTREAK Blood Moon EP
ZAKK SABBATH Doomed Forever Forever Doomed
CRAZY LIXX Two Shots At Glory
CRYPTA In Los Angeles With Photos!
BRUCE DICKINSON The Mandrake Project
BORKNAGAR Fall
HONEYMOON SUITE Alive
NORTH SEA ECHOES Really Good Terrible Things
SOCIAL DISORDER Time To Rise
MINISTRY HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES
MICK MARS The Other Side Of Mars
Original G3 Reunion Featuring JOE SATRIANI, STEVE VAI, ERIC JOHNSON In Los Angeles With Photos!
SVEN GALI Bombs And Battlescars
LIONHEART The Grace Of A Dragonfly
AMARANTHE The Catalyst
MORBID SAINT Swallowed By Hell



HOME | MAGAZINE | VIDS | STORE | HELP/POLICIES

©2024 KNAC.COM. All Rights Reserved.    Link to us    Advertise with us    Privacy policy
 Latest News