ARES KINGDOM - In Darkness at Last
Nuclear War Now! Productions
OK so a little history for ya. Years ago I learned about a band called ORDER FROM CHAOS. They were this cool sounding blackened death metal act from Kansas City, Missouri. Unfortunately by the time I got two of their full lengths (An Ending in Fire from 1998 and Dawn Bringer from 1995) the band had broken up.
A few years later I learned that two members of ORDER FROM CHAOS (aka: guitarist Chuck Keller and drummer Mike Miller) started a new band called ARES KINGDOM. They enlisted Alex Blume (who also plays now in PERDITION TEMPLE) to sing and play bass. I got into them with their second album, Incendiary from 2010. And I immediately was a fan. We're talking insane sounding blackend death thrash to the fuckin hilt.
So after years of being a fan and buying their releases (full lengths and EPs) the band puts out By the Light of Their Destruction in 2019. Now in my not so humble opinion By the Light of Their Destruction was a tour de force of blackened death thrash. Think VENOM, ABSU and POSSESSED all rolled into one extreme bag.
So here we are with their new album and is it better or at least equal to it's predecessor? Well this one is slightly better in a barbaric way of torture metal. All the cool stuff about their last release is taken a click higher. This trio is so meshed together they create an amazing sound.
Chuck Keller puts out these psycho riffs as well as distorto solos. Mike Miller's drum work is relentless and at times he's the fucking lead sound amidst the riffs. Finally Alex Blume's bass lines bludgeon plus I think he's a great extreme metal vocalist. He's got this thick harsh scream / yell that reminds me of King from DECEASED.
All in all In Darkness at Last is one of my favorite albums of 2022. This one gets ranked high. Even better is that I finally got to see ARES KINGDOM this year downtown with Italy's BULLDOZER.
LISTEN HERE:
https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/in-darkness-at-last
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