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SoulSaviour
CD

By: T.J.

At first, I didn't get the picture, but little by little, I started understanding. SoulSavior is the 2nd of three (soon to be groundbreaking) albums from V:28 that goes into detail about the total destruction of the earth. The apocalypse if you will. Part one was entitled Nonanthropogenic and got the ball rolling on a truly momentous and ingenious idea.

SoulSaviour is what I'd consider the climax of the story. It specifically goes into detail about how nuclear warfare will without a doubt be a huge factor in the murder of the Earth. "The Brightest Light", "A Prophecy Written in Uranium", and "The Purifying Flames" backs that up. Please don't misconstrue what I'm saying because the music isn't what I would consider balls to the wall doom metal, but traces of that are evident. The music itself is mostly chopped and formed into death metal with a little bit of doominess incorporated (80% death metal, 20% doom). However, there are many excerpts that have a good amount of programming but it fits in very well to the song, sometimes hardly being able to tell.

Setting up SoulSavior perfectly is "The Brightest Light". It's a brief track that sounds like an excerpt from a television news broadcast from the 1950's talking about the hydrogen bomb and leads into "Unleash the Energy" which is overall, one of the heaviest tracks and has some of the best music. "DeConstructor" is a dominant song on the album. What initially drew me to it were the demon-like vocals "You got that special glow" and what sounds like a gun being cocked. From there, it kind of goes astray from the album (musically) but is exciting to listen to. Hell's bells are ringing; the soldiers who fought tirelessly to save what part of the Earth for themselves is dead. "Dead Man's Choir" is another song unlike anything else off SS. It's much slower featuring larger amounts of programming. In the middle of the song, there's a long segment of nothing but sounds that would lead you to believe everything is dead. The living are now deceased and the Earth who once was able to withstand life can no longer do so.

Everything is dead. It is the end? We'll find out together with part three…

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