THE WRETCHED END

Release Year: 2012
Artist Origin: NOR
Style: violent blackened death/thrash metal

this grim blackened death/thrash metal entity is primarily associated with Samoth [Emperor] due to his prominence, yet the contributions of the roaring guitarist Cosmo and drummer Nils Fjellström should not be overlooked, as they significantly help shaping repulsive, avalanche-like sound on the sophomore full-length, where ideas previously developed by Zyklon and Myrkskog, further explored by Gehenna and Nidingr, are successfully absorbed into a characteristically intricate approach, steeped in an especially bleak and penetrating atmosphere, with guitars unraveling freezing sharp riffs while vocals roar, snarl and hiss, occasionally erupting into painful screams that reinforce the crushing assault, and such a model proves more convincing than the standards of the debut longplay; authentic UK pressing