Eternal Chaos – Dark Gods of the Eternal (2010)

Once again the people over at Mighty Hordes productions deliver a very powerful and intense Black Metal release that will quench your thirst for high-paced devastating music. However, “Dark Gods of the Eternal” is one of those releases the clearly sacrifices the quality of the music for high-paced hellish brutality with no clear aim or direction. While this might be exactly your cup of tea, we expected a little more from these excellent musicians.

Opening with the traditional intro song, the band at least shakes things up a bit and includes some shrieks, some riffing and drumming instead of the cliché keyboard/sample approach. Immediately after, “Lord of Chaos” blows through your speakers with some very intense drumming and bestial riffing creating a purely chaotic and excellent atmosphere. In a more Gorgoroth-like fashion, “The Black Flame Spirit” delivers powerful singing and somewhat entertaining riffing that keeps things fresh and fucking intense.

By the time “Throne of Hate” kicks in, we can start to hear the similarities in the riffing and drumming to the first few songs. Basically this is the ‘déjà vu’ point of the release where all starts sounding pretty much the same. While this repetition is very traditional of the genre, if the music is done right, it’s not entirely bad. In fact, there are a few songs here and there that do have some little moments of originality in them like “Serpent’s Empire”, and our favorite track “Dark God of the Eternal”.

Instead of opening the album with the cliché intro, the band chose to close it with it and it kind of nicely brings down the mood after such an intense and brutal release. While we are not saying that Eternal Chaos is a bad band, we just want to hear some more ‘different stuff’. The musicians are top notch, and you can hear this from the intricate guitar work and well crafted drumming, but the element of creativity is lacking sometimes.

If you want another hyper-fast and crushing Black Metal album, “Dark Gods of the Eternal” is clearly a good pick for your collection. Just do not be expecting too many surprises in this release.

Release: May 28th, 2010

Country: Colombia