Name: Testify For My Victims *
Brand: Candlelight Records (Metal)
SKU: 1122055
Availability: OutOfStock

Testify For My Victims *

Rating

Album: Testify For My Victims *
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Testify for My Victims
2)	Burning Eden
3)	Numb (The Dead)
4)	Godsend God's End
5)	End Game
6)	Questions Pertaining the Ownership of My Mind
7)	Freedom by Mutilation
8)	Subhuman
9)	No Longer Bleeding
10)	Biological Waste Matter
11)	Lost Legion
12)	Ante Mori

Album: Testify For My Victims *
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Testify for My Victims
2)	Burning Eden
3)	Numb (The Dead)
4)	Godsend God's End
5)	End Game
6)	Questions Pertaining the Ownership of My Mind
7)	Freedom by Mutilation
8)	Subhuman
9)	No Longer Bleeding
10)	Biological Waste Matter
11)	Lost Legion
12)	Ante Mori

Performer Notes

Personnel: Stefan Westerberg (drums).
Audio Mixers: Jonas Kjellgren; Carnal Forge.
Recording information: Studio Fast Forward (12/2006-01/2007).
Photographer: Jonas Bilberg.
Long-running, prolific Scandinavian speed/thrash metal act Carnal Forge return after a nearly three-year break with Testify for My Victims, an unexpected but highly effective change of pace. Literally: the band's trademark breakneck tempos are all but absent from this surprisingly melodic album. Instead, solid, riff-based songs like "Burning Eden" and "End Game" stomp along at a medium-high speed about halfway between sludgy stoner metal and hardcore-influenced thrash. More importantly, new singer Jens C. Mortensen completely abandons the now-clichd Cookie Monster growl in favor of a high-register, clean vocal style with occasional falsetto squeals out of the '80s power metal tradition. The resulting songs are a refreshing shift from the increasingly tired tropes of speed metal; while not exactly breaking new ground, Carnal Forge are increasing their stylistic arsenal by reaching back into metal forms past. ~ Stewart Mason