With their seventh album Navigator Germanys finest deather DISBELIEF again prove their nimbus right, being one of just a few German bands who have constantly released high quality material over their entire history, then Navigator seamless ties up to previous heroic deeds. I just wonder when DISBELIEF finally get their well-deserved breakthrough…
Good arguments this record delivers en masse. Already opener and title track plows with brutal and groovin’ force thru the heavy metal sea, while classic DISBELIEF crushers such as he Thought Product, Falling Down, Selected and the more restrained beginning The One get perfectly staged and celebrated. Stylistically nothing has changed either. While the band has changed or added details on the previous albums I have now the feeling DISBELIEF have ultimately found their very own and unique style without any room for compromises. Instead the style description “Death Metal” in the review head (which always was an imprecise description for the DISBELIEF sound) there also could be written the band’s name…
The entire song material sounds like DISBELIEF and only DISBELIEF! Possible comparisons with other bands definitely belong to the past. In almost every single song you can find typical trademarks: a blistering groove, brutal heaviness, and the right touch for captivating melodies aside of the norm and an enormously expressive singing. As usual Karsten Jäger gets again out the best of his throat. And by the way, DISBELIEF again deliver a few catchy tunes with e.g. Between Red Lines and Passenger.
But the absolute mega hammer and my favorite track on Navigator is When Silence Is Broken! Not only the song itself is ingenious but also the pre-chorus creates gooseflesh and does not get out of my head anymore. Just great, I tell you!
After a likewise strong and powerful closer entitled Sacrifice that shines with loud and low changes the willing listener can deal with the DVD, which got added to the limited edition of Navigator. On it one will find the band’s Summer Breeze show in 2005 and the vids to Rewind It All and Sick, both songs come from the 2005 album 66Sick. The live show has a good image quality and a good sound and rocks da house. Only downer… the booklet mentions the work for the Navigator video clip but the result they did not put on this DVD :( As if such great music gets ever broadcasted on TV…
And of course it is too bad that we did not get this album as promo CD, otherwise I’m sure Navigator would have been album of the month in February. At least phat 9.5 points are a good argument, aren’t it? ;)