Hath - All That Was Promised (2022) Metal Album Review Part 1
Just released this year (2022), New Jeresy band Hath's All That Was Promised, delivers the promise of extreme metal, but how good is the metal? Read on to find out. The cover art really reminds me of Slayer's 1988 album South of Heaven. Not just the skull, but the whole style. Track one, "The Million Violations", begins with a soft intro that sounds like bagpipes before giving way to some nice clean electric guitar picking. By 40 secs the distorted guitar comes crashing in with "Battery" type vibes. But this isn't thrash metal, it is death metal with black metal influences, blackened death metal. Yet it is often doomy as well. A nice mixture, though maybe "nice" is an inappropriate word to describe music such as this. Next up is "Kenosis". I had never heard of this term before so I looked it up. In Christian theology it means the self-emptying of Jesus' own will, becoming entirely receptive to God's divine will. The song is...