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Picture Credit: Brotthogg Brotthogg - The Die is Cast Release: August 01, 2020 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 37:03 Genre: Progressive Black Metal / Melodic Black Metal Origin: Trondheim , Norway Not too long ago, Brotthogg had their first appearance on this site . Today, we can listen to the second full-length release by multi-instrumentalist  Kristian Larsen Moen  and his band Brotthogg. Moen  is responsible for all the songwriting, the lyrics, and all instruments, except for guitar soli ( Stephen Carlson ) and vocals ( Craig Furunes  and Jonas Moen ). The sophomore album features seven new songs with titles in Latin, English and Norwegian. And I will forestall, a significant development is hearable, compared to "Echoes of the Past". While the first album was defined by melodic Black, Thrash and Death Metal, the latter is hardly present on "The Die is Cast". Instead, Brotthogg have implemented the element of Progressive Metal on their new release more...

It has been two years since Trondheim's Brotthogg crashed onto this planet with their first EP "The last Traveller". In early August the band around mastermind Kristian Larsen Moen  reported back with their first full-length play "Echoes of the Past", and they immediately outmatched all expectations. Brotthogg are back with seven and a bit more than half an hour of high-speed, brutal and melodic Metal. Drum beats fast as a machine gun, massive like a tank, and precise like a scalpel build the foundation of this beautiful massacre. The soundscape is defined by high-speed staccato riffing, massive and intense harmonies, as well as ice cold and pitch black licks and soli. The growling and deep voices perfectly merge with the rest of Brotthogg's arrangement and create a gloomy, heavy atmosphere. Slower and dragging parts such as in the song 'The Aftermath' do not disturb this picture at all. Brotthogg put the pedal to the metal for this album. Thus...