While their debut accurately included all musical features that could be expected from blackened thrash sound, "The Grim Defiance" drifted further from that direction. In total the album sounds heavier, way more aggressive and intense, and it's great sound quality also reduced the atmospheric effects of blackened themes. In this form it sounds more similar to Marduk or to late Belphegor, and the intensity of the speed ups also matching that level. Therefore even though switches to basic thrashing aren't scarce, the main impression gets closer to black/death. On the side of the increased intensity, the diversity of the themes are also responsible for that. The thrashing parts might be nostalgic though, by recalling the most ancient, raw tendencies that could be expected from this style. This concept embedded into modern sound was mastered by bands like Mordant. Whether this all came from the intention to sound more brutal, or the generic tendencies of Blood Red Throne had indirect influence on their music, "The Grim Defience" doesn't sound like an ordinary black/thrash album. More like the ordinary albums of well known bands that have been around since a long while, and they intend to join to some "decent, modern sound of nowadays metal" club. Even though the impression remains, that the creation of a more generic sound might have been the goal to fit wider audiences, the "Grim Deafiance" is a well composed, and quite enjoyable album, that could be compared only to the biggest names of the nowadays metal scene.
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