REVIEW INVOKER "TOWARDS THE PANTHEON OF THE NAMELESS"

I would like to point out here once again a great, unfortunately probably too little noticed album, namely the third Invoker album called "Towards the pantheon of the nameless" released in 2020 by Einheit Produktionen. The band from Saxony-Anhalt presents on this release an absolutely outstanding mixture of death and black metal in the perfect tension between roughness and harshness on the one hand and playful melodicism on the other. Especially the songwriting is partly outstanding, the guitar work convinces all along the line with great leads and soli and creates despite all the harshness an almost continuous melodic-melancholic atmosphere. Often I think of the bands of the unfortunately long gone Swedish No-Fashion label, which embodied this mixture of death and black metal and carried it into the world, I mention here names like Dissection, Mörk Gryning, Ablaze my Sorrow, Unanmimated or Vinterland. So if you like these bands or in general like powerful, hard, but still melodic and melancholic black / death metal, you have to buy Invoker! Recommended songs are the title track, "Towards the pantheon...", "Devils door", which should bring every club to boil with its melodic and catchy beginning, and "Above the stars", which closes the outstanding album with black metal frenzy.