FOREVER REIGNING – SLAYER TRIBUTE
Today’s review is of the new tribute album to legendary American Thrash Metal band Slayer, “Forever Reigning”.
This release offers 12 covers performed by 8 different bands, and it mainly praises their 5 first albums. Some of these covers try and be as faithful as possible to the original songs, while others reimagine them completely and take them to their territory, in this case mainly Death Metal or Groove Metal.
While the instrumentation is generally good, most covers don’t have the same feeling in the vocal performance, and certain solos lack the same essence. Nonetheless, there are some pretty solid covers here that will please the fans of Slayer or of any of the featured bands. My personal highlights are Disinter’s cover of “Show No Mercy” and Overt Enemy’s cover of “At Dawn They Sleep”.
I recommend this album to fans of Slayer or any Extreme Metal in general. My rating is of 8/10.
VARG THE MIGHTY
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