Saturday, October 17, 2020

Hackneyed - Burn After Reaping (2009)

   Hackneyed's second album showed a fast development. In only one year their music turned more complex and introduced themselves from a bit different way.
   "Death Prevails" have left open plenty of possibilities because of the combination of it's raw simplicity and the same time modern brutal death metal approach. "Burn Ater Raping" took a more melodic but still brutal death influenced switch, and in concept on the side of the gore and morbid humor based lyrics they also gave some hint with some deeper message. It was still an experimenting album with various future possibilities, but because of the complexity of their themes it was a step forward. The main view was therefore still not much more unified than on the first album, especially because of the contrast that was formed by the catchy melodies and brutal death ambitions, plus the concept changes are just the icing on the cake. It could be taken as enjoyable diversity, but it still sounds only as the current station of a musical development that is not known yet where will exactly lead. The different musical influences could be found responsible, but the band proved again their professionality though by bonding together these various individual aspects and imaginations of rough brutality and creating something great from them. "Burn After Raping" is definitely a modern death metal record that fits well to it's that time current tendencies and therefore finally left the old school roots. 
 

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