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NECRONOMICON - Constant To Death - Reviewed By hellfire ! check it out here at this link: https://www.hellfire-magazin.de/necronomicon-constant-to-death/

With "Constant To Death", their twelfth studio album, NECRONOMICON embark on an explosive tightrope walk between thrash, punk and power metal. The hard, uncompromising characteristics of the songs have remained. What's new is the tidy, fat sound and the dominance of the vocals, with songwriter and frontman Freddy showing his voice with more power than ever. So much for an excerpt from the promo sheet.

It starts with the title of the same name “ Constant to Death” , which stomps rhythmically, but also changes that, while at the same time Freddy, who is not only vocalistically active but also swings the guitar strings, rounds off the whole thing. “ They Lie ” opens electronically and the famous post goes neatly and straight from the following, and that much to my delight. “ Redemption ” has Thrash in its blood and for me there is a little touch of Destruction floating through the air, “ Stored in Blood ” comes up with fat riffs, its path is pretty straight forward, more moments are “sacrificed” to the guitar and in the end it turns everything turns 180 degrees while “ The Guilty Shepherd” with the crack of a whip, violin and a music box with a well-known little song, the drums push themselves forward, straightness returns, which is also often “interrupted” by ramming heavy music. The whole thing is very dark and gloomy in its entirety, pleases and bell sounds end everything.

“ A Voice for the Voiceless ” spreads a little breeze, especially vocally, of the Teutons mentioned above, plays a bit progressive, plays heavy metal and both fit and find each other. “ Black Rain ” pleases with thunderous moments, but is torn out of these again and again, which doesn't appeal to me and the flow comes to a standstill for me. “ Children Cry Alone ” is played fast again, which comes into its own, even if the babies would have preferred to hear softer tones at first, “ Bloodrush ” starts with the 6-string as the solo entertainer, everyone then gets together and let the sinewy muscles flex together and “ Down from Above” fires nice and snappy salvos and you'll encounter the handy on solo trails for a long time.

“ The Blood Runs Red ” is one of my favorites as it captivates with its basic darkness and captures me in its entirety, from initially speaking demonically to ending in screaming, “Poverty Show”, crows , ravens, bells - that's how it starts, sorted The blacksmith's famous cat rushes off in Necronomicon manner, and then finally accompanies me to the door with the instrumental outro of spherical and somber sounds, piano and violin. 

I give it 8 out of 10 Hellfire points. hellfire

Release Date: 28.04.2023

FFO: Slayer, Megadeth, Overkill

Location: Germany

With Constant to Death, their twelfth studio album, Necronomicon embarks on an explosive tightrope walk between thrash, punk and powermetal. The hard, uncompromising characteristics of the songs have remained. New is the tidy, fat sound and the dominance of the vocals, in which songwriter and front man Freddy shows himself more vocally powerful than ever. Freddy describes 'Constant to death' as his most modern and at the same time most personal album. "There's everything in the 12 songs, from typical Necronomicon to salon-ready powermetal to my musical origins of punk." 

Title track and opener of the new album is 'Constant to death'. Thrash reloaded. Compact, a power song in which soundmaster Achim Köhler has once again done a great job and which will open the door to a wider audience for Necronomicon. Also the second song, 'They lie', a typical punk song, but in the "here and now" so Freddy, clarifies Necronomicon's new course out of the niche German Thrash Metal without however losing recognition value. 'Constant to death' is more than a loose sequence of songs, it is Freddy's journey through music as he loves it. Each track is meant to make you curious about the next one. In the sense...it makes you want to listen through the album....and then... start all over again. Early in spring, Freddy went to work on the songwriting and the album was recorded before the European tour in September / October 2022. This time the members of Necronomicon recorded and produced it in the band's own headquarters to simply have more time. 

The rhythm & melody guitars were played as always by Freddy and then Marco Lohrenz laid down the powerful , well thought out and melodic foundation bass tracks in preparation for the drum tracks to be recorded by Rik. Because the band wanted as much time as possible to record the music tracks, Rik Charron flew to Germany 2 weeks before the start of the tour to record all the drums for the new album. The former Exciter drummer AGAIN hits the skins with the speed of a machine gun and with the power, intricacies and ferocity he is well known for.

The thoughtful and flowing solo guitars were recorded by Glen Shannon at his home base in the USA. The album is being Mixed and Mastered as always by Achim Köhler. He is the only engineer for Necronomicon when it comes to the perfect sound for the band of his production excellence. Due to the worldwide events, the album title "Constant to Death" is also the main theme of the lyrics. The Russian war of aggression on Ukraine, churches and their sexual abuse, child poverty and hunger...They are very serious and socially-critical song lyrics, which turn out accordingly gloomy. Constant to Death, Constant to Thrash !

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Lineup: 
Freddy: Vocals and Melodie- & Rhythm guitar 
Marco Lohrenz: Bass 
Rik Charron: drums
Glen Shannon: Soli guitar

Track List:
1. Constant To Death 
2. They Lie  
3. Redemption 
4. Stored In Blood
5. The Guilty Shepherd 
6. A Voice For The Voiceless
7. Black Rain
8. Children Cry Alone
9. Bloodrush
10. Down From Above
11. The Blood Runs Red
12. Poverty Show

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https://www.facebook.com/necronomiconofficial
https://necronomicon-germany.de/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEYPGuTerbs2QmpgC_b0wg