{"id":79,"date":"2009-11-30T13:04:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T19:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=79"},"modified":"2009-11-30T13:04:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T19:04:23","slug":"destroyer-defiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2009\/11\/30\/destroyer-defiance\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroyer &#8211; Defiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-80\" title=\"destroyer666\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/destroyer666.jpg\" alt=\"destroyer666\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" \/>After seven years, Destroyer 666 has released a new album with increased musical complexity. The guitar riffs are more brutal and crunching than their last album; the vocals are dry mid-range growls echoing as if they came straight from hell; the overall mood is angry and dark. This is not to say that the album doesn\u2019t leap away from consistency; in fact there are some quite melodic guitar riffs especially on the sludgy \u201cBlood for Blood\u201d and the depressive \u201cHuman All to Human.\u201d But watch out, because immediately after that your face will be ripped away by the blasting machine gun anthem \u201cThe Barricades are Breaking.\u201d The album ends in a triumphant epic with choral-like vocals and a repetitive Burzum-esque guitar riff. This album is for anyone who enjoyed the more depressing mid-\u201990s black metal, not because it was depressing but because the melody was captivating. (Season of Mist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.season-of-mist.com\/\">www.season-of-mist.com<\/a>) <strong>Paul Nordin<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seven years, Destroyer 666 has released a new album with increased musical complexity. The guitar riffs are more brutal and crunching than their last album; the vocals are dry mid-range growls echoing as if they came straight from hell; the overall mood is angry and dark. This is not to say that the album [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}