Ligation - After Gods

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  Pete Brown

  Ever since I first listened to Demilich, I am pretty much always there for metal bands from Finland. Thus, this album is my first listen of this week's new metal releases.

  And you know what? It's fantastic! It's a great mix of fast and slow tempos, and as with so many Finnish metal bands—and I'm not really sure I can quite put my finger on why—it doesn't really sound like anything else.

  The whole album is great, but the stand-out tracks for me are the opening title track, kind of mid-tempo rocker that is super-heavy, "Eruption", which is pummeling to the point of being nearly industrial, and the closing bonus track "Seraphic Glutton", an 8-minute mountain of heavy doom.