If there's one band that breaks its neck, it's LEGION OF THE DAMNED! The Dutch Thrashers, who have always liked to flirt with Death and Black Metal offshoots, let us know with their seventh album Slaves of the Shadow Realm another milestone on mankind's journey, the like a gleaming black monolith. Four years after the much-praised Ravenous Plague is inserted by the reliable shredding foursome together with producer-intimus Andy Classen For example, 'Nocturnal Commando' is a bit slobbering, almost oldschool frenzy, while 'Slaves of the Southern Cross' reminds of the stoic groove of such band classics as 'Into the Eye of the Storm', but enriches it with crazy melodic explosions. The lashing 'Shadow Realm of the Demonic Mind' can also do that very well, before the perfectly balanced 'Dark Coronation' concludes an extremely versatile and catchy album - Nackenbrecher!
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