Heavy grooves hail from the dark cloudy sky, ominous keyboard carpets intensify the threatening doomsday mood and fervent growls underline the musical apocalypse; but GODSKILL don't forget the necessary portion of finely dosed melodies and keep the whole scenery exciting.
In the course of The Eleven Kills The Ten, the dark journeymen are well aware of the power of the medium-fast nuchal vertebra destruction rhythm and throw it into the battle for the listener's favor during Demon Mother as a profitable stylistic means in combination with dark vocal passages. I like very much how the band integrates their sense for subtle, perfectly tuned melodies into the songs and how every metal fan can be drawn to their side of darkness because of the simple and catchy choruses design.
The tactic of unbridled headbang power and filigree chiseled melody fragments works in collaboration with shimmering solos even during the piece Ungodly Is The Flesh, which partly hacks down everything and has hymnic traits in its opulent vocals.
The title song The Gatherer Of Fear And Blood picks up pleasantly doomed passages and convinces with galloping parts, elongated guitar tones, dynamic increases and wistful leads. From The Ashes Of Angels sounds a bit more modern with his staccato riffing and is upgraded by discreet symphonic accompaniment, before The Shell, stomping with his legs wide, dust-dry grooves, effective beat changes and sublime melodic leading, scores further plus points. After the soulful, emotional instrumental title Preliminary Invocation, this all-round successful work ends with the atmospheric Becoming A God, characterized by impressive choirs and wonderful guitar motifs, which captivate with an oriental flair.
GODSKILL offer Bulldozer-Death-Metal with extremely rolling passages and level any resistance, yet don't fall into a blunt representation of pure aggression, but animate with flowing beat changes and vary the tempo pleasantly, wrapped in a voluminously frying sound. Bang your heads and raise your fists!