Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos

One of the best death metal albums of all time, Bolt Thrower's second album and 1989 masterpiece, Realm of Chaos. There was literally a point where I didn't put this album down for a few months because it was just that good. I mean look at that fucking album cover. Goddamn Warhammer 40,000. Bolt Thrower were some serious nerds to write an entire album about space marines destroying the forces of chaos in planetary scaled war. But that's what makes it so goddamn great.

The imagery of the cover comes to life through the music. Everything about it is so bestial, it really sounds just like an army charging through a battlefield. The guitars were tuned all the way down to A and had a ton of distortion thrown on them. The bass plods throughout the album as the center of the massive low end sound. The drumming might be the only weak point in this album because they sound sloppy on occasion but I believe that only adds to the war-like sound of Bolt Thrower. The guitar riffs herein are fucking god-tier. No guitar-wank and no showy solos. Just straight fucking heavy riffs like it should be. You'll notice that some of the riffs have a certain to groove to them as well during songs like 'Through the Eye of Terror'. The kind of sound crafted on this album influenced countless of bands afterwards.

This album is a definite must for any fan of oldschool death metal, so if you haven't listened to it already you're doing it wrong. All wrong.

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Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos