Lair Of The Minotaur - Evil Power (2010)

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With a very interesting band name: Lair Of The Minotaur, and a superb album title “Evil Power” we review today this band from the USA. The band plays a very interesting combination of Trash and Doom metal that we have only heard a handful of times. With the unconventional combination of genres comes either great or terrible music, but Lair Of The Minotaur pulls it off nicely.

Since the first moments of “Evil Power” you can hear what the band is all about: combining Trashy riffs with Doom metal’s grinding style. And as you can expect, the band produces pure power and aggression with their 30 minutes of music divided in 11 tracks.

For those of you that did not know, the band use to be on Southern Lord Records, this alone let’s you know that their style of music is both fresh and crushing. With heavy influences of Celtic Frost, some Bathory, and few modern Darkthrone hints, this album is out to crush everybody on their way.

There are a few punk elements here and there, especially on the drumming, and give the music an overall intense pace that will have people moshing from start to end of this short but sweet album. While we are not great fans of this genre, we can appreciate this release since it never gets annoying to us.

Overall, “Evil Power” is a very solid album that will rock your socks off. The band has the grooviness and the catchiness needed to make it big amongst the metal heads that love this particular type of music.

Band: Lair Of The Minotaur Album: Evil Power
Label: The Grind-House Records

Release: April 13th, 2010

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Genre: Trash/Doom Metal

Country: USA

Rating: 83/100
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