After their 2006 success with “Armada”, Norway’s Keep Of Kalessin did a lot of touring with the likes of Satyricon, Exodus, Hypocrisy, Carpathian Forest and Enslaved. I bet it won them even more black little souls who were all expecting the follow-up album to be equally good. And while “Kolossus” is no “Armada”, Keep Of Kalessin once again does a great job of mixing black metal with some thrash and death thrown in.
While it all sounds great and these guys are pretty technically skilled (everything was recorded live in the studio in one take), it is still ‘just” another black metal album, complete with all of the genre’s limitations. The band does its best by using more melodic parts but in the end it sounds the same like a thousand other black metal albums that came before “Kolossus” despite the bio sheet’s claim that “Kolossus” will have a huge impact on the whole metal scene. Yeah, we’ll see about that.
Score: 7 out of 10
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