When you read that a band has members named Desecratör, Executor, and Infernal Destroyer, you'd probably expect to hear some bone-headed Black/Thrash. Well, you'd be half right. Endzeit Metropolis is indeed a dripping slab of Thrashing Black Metal, except it's actually good, far beyond their goat and penis-obsessed contemporaries. At this stage Ketzer sounds like a catchier, less Dissection-esque (and better) Watain. With the whole catchy/cheese thing going on, they do flirt with "Black & Roll" at times, but they never get really outrageous with it like Midnight. To me, this is really just a more accessible take on Swedish Black Metal with some tongue-in-cheek humor, Thrash, and D-beat ifluence thrown in. Take all of those contrasting ingredients and put them in a streamlined, professional package, and you have probably the best Black Metal album so far this year.
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