Altars Of Metal Archive · 1999
Dethronement – “Survival Of The Sickest”

An original Altars Of Metal review by Michael “The Wild Runner” Savouidakis, restored from our late-1990s archive.

Release: 1999
Label: Loud ’n’ Proud
Catalog: LNP 008
Format: CD
Country: Sweden

Dethronement – Survival Of The Sickest (1999) album cover
Dethronement – Survival Of The Sickest, Loud ’n’ Proud Records, 1999.

Album details

BandDethronement
AlbumSurvival Of The Sickest
Year1999
LabelLoud ’n’ Proud
Catalog IDLNP 008
GenreMelodic Death Metal

Archive note: The review below is reproduced from the 1999 Altars Of Metal archive. Only obvious typographical errors have been corrected; the original wording and character of the text have otherwise been preserved. Discographic details were added for the restored edition.
Album reference.

Original Review

I confess that it is the first time I am listening to a death/black band and actually like it so much. I believe it is not accidental at all, the fact that they won the annual contest of the Swedish magazine “Close-Up” as the best new band. Their music is a death metal holocaust, with well-looked-after vocals that take turns to death and black complexions. I would dare to say that they are so technical and so creative musically, that can be compared even with the Gods Death.

Unfortunately the promo CD that LOUD ‘N’ PROUD Records sent me does not include any information about the group (not even the cover and the titles of the songs!). But I can ensure you that all of you who will invest to this one, will be absolutely satisfied. It is recommended to all the fans of death/black but also to those who are open-minded and can survey something really significant.

It is disposed from the address of LOUD ‘N’ PROUD RECORDS, which, I believe, will attract our attention this year in all genres (speed/power, epic, death/black etc).

LOUD ‘N’ PROUD Records
P.O. Box 177
581 02 Linkoping – Sweden

Contact with them and ask for their very interesting catalog.

In memory of Michael “The Wild Runner” Savouidakis.
This review remains part of the history of Altars Of Metal and of the people who helped build it.

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