Fallen Tyrant – No World to Win, a Life to Lose (2013)

Delivering pummeling waves of punishing Black Metal, today we have Germany’s Fallen Tyrant and their debut full-length “No World to Win, a Life to Lose”. With eight tracks and over 35-minutes of crushing music, this release is one of the most devastating BM albums of the year, paired with Watain’s latest opus.

The album opens with a very traditional and at moments Black’n’roll-ish “Fallen Tyrant Rising”. This track immediately unleashes the powers of the band and showcases their killer riffing and powerful vocals. Reminding us of newer Gorgoroth and other bands like Lord Belial, the punishment continues with the killer “Exaltation” and “Bortrykkelsen”. The band also has a melodic aspect to their BM and you can how crafty they can get with tracks like “To Finnmarken”.

In other occasions the raw and unadulterated power of songs like “Godhate”, the drumming is quite typical but devastating and the simple song structure really gets the idea behind Black Metal and its roots. Just before you think things start winding down with the Drone-esque “Approach”, the album title track comes at us with the force of a bag of bricks. The band does a great job in delivering dueling shrieks/growls to create a very powerful effect.

If you are a fan of well-produced raw and in-you-face Black Metal, this is one album you do not want to miss. We can only hope that all fans of the genre get wind of Fallen Tyrant and their killer Black Metal. If all the albums we received at Infernal Masquerade were as punishing and well-crafted as this one, our lives would be so much better.

Label: Fat & Holy Records

Release: August 2nd, 2013

Genre: Black Metal

Country: Germany