{"id":76202,"date":"2018-01-29T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=76202"},"modified":"2018-01-29T10:28:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T16:28:39","slug":"review-swear-the-conquerors-oath-with-visigoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/review-swear-the-conquerors-oath-with-visigoth\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Swear the Conqueror’s Oath with Visigoth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hail the coming of the conqueror!<\/p>\n

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Back in 2015, Visigoth<\/strong> released their monolithic debut<\/a>. It boasted a thick, imposing sound, a monumental play time of just over an hour, and above all, an unending string of catchy hooks the likes of which other bands would kill for. To put it mildly, the bar was set high for their sophomore, yet when news about Conqueror’s Oath<\/em> surfaced, I was pretty confident that it would live up to expectations. Let’s see how it fares against its older brother.<\/p>\n

The first difference I noticed was a change in song structures, which more or less directly results in the shorter run time of the album. Revenant King<\/em> achieved its epic length with songs that would hardly ever clock in below the six minute mark. More often than not, these would contain bridge parts so elaborate that it almost seemed like every song carried another song nestled within it. As much of a sucker as I am for grandiose storytelling, I must admit that the formula wasn’t always successful. Transitions between the “outer” and the “inner” song weren’t always smooth, and sometimes, it seemed like the two parts weren’t quite on a par quality-wise. On Conqueror’s Oath<\/em>, this type of structure is not treated as the mandatory thing it seems to have been in the past. Rather than shoehorning in parts that might have been better off on their own, Visigoth let songs develop more freely. Now, if there is some sort of drastic change, it feels like it comes about naturally and because it makes sense within the narrative of the song – both the lyrical and the musical narrative, meaning that everything flows together much more nicely. The first single “Warrior Queen” exemplifies this quite well.<\/p>\n