{"id":78051,"date":"2018-03-19T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=78051"},"modified":"2018-03-19T07:33:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:33:53","slug":"the-new-autokrator-album-is-too-heavy-for-my-morning-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/the-new-autokrator-album-is-too-heavy-for-my-morning-commute\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Autokrator Album Is Too Heavy for My Morning Commute"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Look, I’ve only got ten minutes in the car in the morning. I don’t want to spend all ten of those minutes breaking my neck and endangering the many young co-eds criss-crossing the beautiful UNC campus, do I?<\/p>\n

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Every morning at 5 am (or earlier), Dr. Mrs.W. and I stumble out of bed and shuffle into the dark of our home, I to the dog’s room (the space formerly known as my office), and she to the kitchen to make some coffee. You know what sounds nice at 5 am? The melodious grind of the brewer. You know what doesn’t sound nice at 5 am? The discordant grind of Autokrator’s totalitarian death metal. Autokrator’s infamously caustic production job<\/a>\u00a0is ratcheted up to 11 on new album\u00a0Hammer of the Heretics<\/em>, and it’s just way too much, y’know?<\/p>\n

“But Dubs, hasn’t lead songwriter Loic injected more doom metal elements into Autokrator’s crushing soundscape, periodically dragging things out low and slow on\u00a0Hammer of the Heretics<\/em>?” Yes, dear reader, he has, and it adds a hell of a lot of depth to the martial sound he pushed on\u00a0Autokrator<\/em> and\u00a0The Obedience to Authority<\/em>, but slow doesn’t exactly mean palatable. Sure, I’m still puttering around in my slippers as I leash Roxy up for her walk down the street so she can go pee, but that doesn’t mean my soft body is ready for those slow, menacing riffs that just fill me with dread that early in the morning. I don’t need to start my day stressed out, ya dig?<\/p>\n