It's been four years since Casus Luciferi, and the Swedish black metallers Watain have returned with a cold and blasphemous new album.
Sworn To The Dark is a sinister and forbidding dose of black metal. You'll hear the droning guitars and frantic blast beats of black metal, but Watain adds a lot of really catchy and melodic riffs and some cool guitar countermelodies. The drumming is also very creative and one of the strongest parts of the album. The vocals fall somewhere in between black and death metal. They are raw and aggressive, but still understandable.
This is a really well crafted album that's menacing, yet melodic. It's sometimes brutal, sometimes groovy, and always evil.
