Revocation has had a totally fascinating previous decade-ish. Their 2016 file Nice Is Our Sin was a straight-up thrash-terpiece, whereas The Outer Ones in 2018 took a tough flip into some otherworldly dying steel. Then got here the sinister vile-ness that was Netherheaven in 2022, which is adopted by the band’s latest album New Gods, New Masters – a seeming marriage of the whole lot Revocation has ever achieved up up to now.
New Gods, New Masters seems like a retrospective of Revocation‘s profession filtered by their most up-to-date materials. You have obtained dying steel ragers like “Sarcophagi Of The Soul” and “Dystopian Vermin” alongside some excessive steel legends bringing an added layer of chaos to the combination – “Confines Of Infinity” that includes Travis Ryan of Cattle Decapitation, “Cronenberged” that includes Jonny Davy of Job for a Cowboy, and “Buried Epoch” that includes Luc Lemay of Gorguts.
Or to place it a bit extra bluntly: New Gods, New Masters is fucking heavy. When you’re into the groovier and chunkier facet of Revocation that flirts with wrist-breaking technicality, that is your album.
Then there’s the instrumental “The All Seeing” that includes jazz participant Gilad Hekselman, who performed with Pat Metheny at The Kennedy Heart. This one’s over 5 minutes of riffs upon riffs that every one fall collectively right into a masterclass of not solely the right way to write an instrumental, however for any guitarist severe about their instrument. And no – there is no large band jazz part that panders to Hekselman. This tune simply shreds.
New Gods, New Masters is spectacular in that it is the whole lot you’d need from Revocation at this level, however a bit extra streamlined. This feels rather less technical than its predecessors and extra focused on the facility of writing riff and an incredible groove. Longtime Revocation followers are certain to seek out one thing to like right here, however new followers are definitely going to discover a stable entry level into the band’s in depth discography right here as nicely.
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