After an initial glance at the album cover and the band's logo font, you'd be forgiven for thinking Juvenes's 'When Heroes Will Rise' is yet another ripoff of/tribute to Bathory's 'Blood Fire Death,' and to a considerable extent, you'd be correct. However, the Polish clan injects an equally considerable amount of their own personality into that template (in other words, they're at least a good knockoff), and surprises abound among the band's mildly majestic/mostly musty blackthrash here. Held as a cult pillar of pagan black metal since their 'Riddle of Steel' debut, the foremost surprise on their grittier 'n' grimier sophomore outing, 'When Heroes Will Rise,' is the hauntingly hovering title track, one of those psychedelic black excursions into the vastlands of your mind, a war-torn battlefield panorama that dangles most dreadfully in the cosmos like mammoth-sized vultures surveying said scene; similarly, "Toward the Father's Inheritance" follows suit, and "Born Out of Flames" might be the unlikely occurrence that Graveland would take a stab at mildewed copies of '80s Sodom and Kreator records. Speaking of which, the other surprise here is "The Talionis (The Law of Talion)," where the ornery artiness of Voivod circa 'Killing Technology' steps onto the tracks of a Teutonic-trash trainwreck. Elsewhere, of course, Juvenes treat the kult-inklined to revisions of said Bathory platter, all cranky and cranked-up and cavernously recorded like the '90s never happened—and in Juvenes's world, they probably never did. What's next, then, a trip into the 'Hammerheart' of darkness, or inciting a "Riot of Violence"? Wait and see, I guess, but this writer will be waiting for the call to attack. Double-fist this with Urgrund's semi-recent 'The Graven Sign' for an elegantly wasted, heathen-hearted mead-swilling session. <Nathan T. Birk> -8.5-


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Label: No Colours | Item Code: NC 056 | Country: Poland | Year: 2003 | Genre: Black Metal

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