{"id":27090,"date":"2013-08-30T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-nekrogoblikon-power\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:25:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:25:46","slug":"album-review-nekrogoblikon-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-nekrogoblikon-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Nekrogoblikon &#8211; Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_inline_ms5hjlmm1W1qz4rgp.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nekrogoblikon <\/strong>provide exactly what you might expect from a band fully committed to being, well, goblins. Everything\u2019s very theatrical, very snarly in places before becoming incredibly operatic. I\u2019m not going to lie, this record is pretty terrible but it\u2019s also so much fun it\u2019s hard to get mad about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Nekrogoblikon<\/strong> are caught somewhere between Amon Amarth and that band from the Yule Ball in the fourth Harry Potter film \u2013 with a little bit of Eastern Europe thrown in for flavour. Seriously, I can\u2019t stress enough just how little sense <strong>Nekrogoblikon <\/strong>makes \u2013 it\u2019s wonderful. <em>\u2018Giraffe\u2019 <\/em>is bizzare \u2013 there\u2019s a lot of lyrics about dead giraffes for a start; it even ends with a spate of laughter followed by the word &lsquo;giraffe\u2019 harmonized a few times. Earlier oddness, such as the enormous solos in <em>\u2018Powercore\u2019<\/em>, really do sound as though they were borne of goblinkind. I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and call on <em>\u2018Crickets\u2019<\/em> as the best track on <em>\u2018Power\u2019<\/em>. It\u2019s the most badass track going on this EP, the vocals are at their raspiest and the guitar work is just top notch, bags \u2018o fun, silly metal.<!-- more --><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At its most standard <em>\u2018Power\u2019 <\/em>is an entirely average metal record and at it\u2019s most unusual it is utterly beyond description. Everything else falls somewhere in the middle, occasionally jumping out to force attention with a full-blown 80s chorus or a rad harmonized riff \u2013 or even, and this may well be the misheard lyric to end them all, the cry of &ldquo;<em>more revolting than a barrel full of ears&rdquo;<\/em>. There\u2019s more than a little chance you\u2019ll hate this record, it\u2019s very easy to roll the eyes and move on. A lot easier than getting yourself a beer, turning the lights off, hitting play with the volume way up, and pumping your fist in the dark for fifteen minutes. But still, for posterity, I\u2019m going to recommend the latter. See how long you can last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I\u2019ll knock a point off for the press release all about a goblin\u2019s hunt for \u201cbit\u2026 sorry women\u201d though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">2\/5<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&#8216;Power&rsquo;<\/em> by <strong>Nekrogoblikon<\/strong> is out now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Nekrogoblikon<\/strong> Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nekrogoblikon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nekrogoblikon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/nekrogoblikon.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Words by Thomas Knott (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nounandthenouns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@nounandthenouns<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nekrogoblikon provide exactly what you might expect from a band fully committed to being, well, goblins. 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I\u2019m not going to lie, this record is pretty terrible but it\u2019s also so much fun it\u2019s hard to get mad about it.\u00a0 Nekrogoblikon are caught somewhere between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8181],"tags":[5879,150,11942,7866],"class_list":["post-27090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-post","tag-album-reviews","tag-music","tag-nekrogoblikon","tag-power"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Album Review: Nekrogoblikon - Power - Already Heard Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nekrogoblikon provide exactly what you might expect from a band fully committed to being, well, goblins. 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