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SIEBENBÜRGEN - REVELATION VI - BLISTERING  
There will be no prizes for guessing how many albums this band has recorded before this one. There are no prizes available for guessing that Revelation VI is not good after finding out that the band’s music is built on a diet of fantasy keyboards and female operatic vocals in addition to the vaunted guitars, bass and drums. The shrieky growls and the heavy use of synthesizers are typical napalm records stuff, which the group was with previously. The immediate effect is that interesting and strong riffs (the start of In Sanctum is a good example) are watered down and dragged through the mud of trendiness on nearly every song. Speaking of which, like Emperor, Crematory and many more, this band went on the voluntary break-up a year before soon reforming and begin working on the subject at hand. - Anna Tergel