This review
goes out to all the hobgoblins spending their annual leave in
the Swedish scrub to cull their bloody steak by the power of their
hands – moose meat chiefly. I would have bet my ass that
MASSIVE ASSAULT dwells in Sweden. If I had bet it would
be a bad deal – in the true sense of the word! The epicenter
called Dystopian Prophecies has its origin in the
Netherlands and rolls with a gigantic old school Death Metal wave
straight to North. Definitely not bad for a band that goes hunting
with Dystopian Prophecies as their first longplayer
since founding back in 2003! And if old school then let’s
go the whole hog! So, there’s no double-bass-plowing through
the thicket or technical fancy guitar-play until the phalanges
splinter in it. MASSIVE ASSAULT really knows how to transport
the spirit in their songs in that way that this stuff comes close
up to many old Carnage and Dismember tracks later then. The right
melody-lines are chosen; the guitars saw in well-known tradition
and lend Dystopian Prophecies that certain something!
Ideally suited for every old school freak!