REVIEW: ORDAINED - THE SECOND COMING

 

ORDAINED - THE SECOND COMING (Sinternational Records, 2000)

Produced by James K Faw and ORdained

Recorded at The Sanctuary

Cover art by Scapegoat

Tracks: 1- The Ordained, 2- Caught in a Trap, 3- Let there be Death, 4- Beloved, 5- Sealed with a Fist, 6- Lowly Little Pawn; 7-Sanctum Secorum; 8- Destroyer, 9- I Am the One; 10- Perversery Rhymes; 11- Lunatic; 12- Punk You!; 13- Golgotha

How powerfully starts this CD !!! A drums passage and then the guitars enter in a really heavy way. In fact Ordained´s music has a lot of eighties thrash metal influences, (specially on The Reverend´s vocals) but with a really modern sound in the guitars and drums. And this is a combination that is needed in the world of metal music. Why? Because the heavier bands don´t have thais influences and play in a different way and most of the eighties band have changed their sound. So, it is really good that a band like Ordained takes this music one step forward and make a crushing CD like this one. The music here has a lot of variations, breaks and changes, and interesting guitar arrangements (using many different ruiffs within the same song) that contrast with The Reverend´s high pitched vocals. It is good to listen this band with a lot of originality in their music !!

Favorite tracks: "The Ordained"; "Sealed With a Fist" and "Perversery Rhymes"

Contact: www.ordained.net