Wildernessking - The Writing of Gods in The Sand
Self Release
Proggy Black Metal
2 songs (10:15)
Release year: 2011
Reviewed by Jaime
Surprise of the month
It’s safe to say that South Africa’s Wildernessking like Enslaved just a wee, tiny bit. The riffing, the drumming, it’s all fairly similar. Not a carbon copy, but similar, and there could have been far worse bands for them to be influenced by. Rubicon shows off their rough but bright eyed take on black metal nicely, with my only real complaint being that the vocals have been badly recorded. Not just badly mixed, but badly recorded. And it’s only the vocals; everything else is very well defined. It’s a shame as they’ve got some nice ideas and that snarl has a venomous snap to it that intensifies everything around it. Utopia has the bass bounce it in, but once it picks up steam the riffs roll out easily. It’s just a shame they stuck an ill-advised little clean section in that siphons the energy they’d summoned up, as the band take the slow to mid tempo approach after it that could have done with a bit of a shove. The little solo section isn’t too bad either.

And like that, it was over. But hey, for a first stab it’s not bad. And look at that artwork. Look at it. It’s sublime. It's a crime that I had to compress and distort it due to the site's silly file size limit. Hell, I hope the band get picked up just to see more of that. You can listen to and download Wildernessking’s The Writing of Gods in the Sand from their Bandcamp.
Killing Songs :
Rubicon
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