Death metal band Pantokrator from Sweden has been around for a while. With Blod the members of the band prove they've left behind the demo days for good as this record makes clear they're up to the real stuff. Blod has ten songs with a constant variation of doomy, midtempo and fast parts without giving an overdose of double bass. The guitar sound is fat and heavy and in many songs there are some female vocals while singer Karl Walfridsson has a raw grunt. The doomier parts make me think of old Antestor. A song like Blod Ropar Från Jorden is one of the tracks bringing Groms back to memory. The album also has violin playing in Tidevarv which, at times, has resemblances to Believer's Trilogy Of Knowledge. Blod is also a concept album starting with the fall of mankind in paradise (the CD actually starts with the sound of someone biting in an apple), and ending with the dawn of eternity. Everything is sung in Swedish but all lyrics are translated in the booklet. This helps to get an idea of what Blod is about as the Swedish is hard to follow! Conclusion: death metal fans have another album to embrace!
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