...SIŁA I PIĘKNO MUZYKI TKWIĄ W JEJ RÓŻNORODNOŚCI



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GALLOWER – the Witching Metal power-trio from Tychy, Poland – have been unleashing their blackthrash fury upon the underground for over a decade. Since their formation in 2015, the band have become a bastion of old-school metal, raw aggression, blistering energy, and a dark medieval aesthetic. Their lyrics immerse listeners in the shadowy world of GALLOWER, a 15th-century land where magic, monsters, and unholy evil reign supreme.

GALLOWER’s discography is a journey into the heart of metal’s purest traditions: demos Witch Hunt is On (2015) and Through the Gallows (2016), through their debut album Behold the Realm of Darkness (2020), to the EP Eastern Witchcraft (2022), released under the banner of DYING VICTIMS. Each release is a testament to GALLOWER’s commitment to keeping the old-school flame alive while crafting a unique and immersive soundscape. Their next recording, the full-length Vengeance & Wrath, won’t be any different and will release the bubonic plague once again!

GALLOWER’s live shows, brimming with unrelenting energy and a raw aggression, leave no man spared and no cross unturned – and that finely honed finesse reaches its apotheosis on Vengeance & Wrath. Truly titled, Vengeance & Wrath encapsulates and exaggerates the GALLOWER aesthetic to date: a perfect storm of thrashing-mad riffs, harsh-yet-articulate vocals, pitch-black intensity, and epic storytelling, all with medieval atmosphere to spare. It’s not so much a vertical improvement as it is a lateral one, for to do anything beyond the remit of truest metal would be a fate worse than death! No more but definitely no less, GALLOWER strive to reach the hallowed halls of Venom, Destruction, Bathory, Sodom, and the Japanese Sabbat – and from this vantage point, with Vengeance & Wrath do they walk that path honorably.

This is Witching Metal: an unholy call to arms for all who live and die for the old school. Arm yourself with a bulletbelt, take this torch, and prepare for battle — the witch hunt has begun, and GALLOWER lead the charge into darkness with Vengeance & Wrath!



I've only just had a chance to write you a few words about Pandemic's second album, and here new Gallower material has already emerged from around the corner. What these two bands have in common is well known. Both lineups feature Nocturnitter, who is one of my favorite retro-style guitarists of the younger generation. The guy has the skills and the head for writing riffs, unquestionably. Gallower is well known to all geeks of old-style metal. Their debut “Behold the Realm of Darkness” and subsequent EP “Eastern Witchcraft” are the essence of 1980s thrash metal. And undoubtedly the forefront of the genre in our domestic backyard in recent years. So is the band still sailing in the right direction, or is it drifting into the shallows? Fuck, free jokes! I'm willing to venture that this is the best, and certainly the most varied material the band has ever recorded. Of course, the band's style hasn't changed a bit. Only the form of the message has changed, albeit slightly. The gentlemen no longer ride straight ahead relentlessly, or at least not all the time. Because there is a lot of riffing at full speed here anyway. At moments, however, they press the brake pedal, as if they wanted to take a sharp turn before accelerating their machine to full speed again. I don't know if this was a deliberate procedure, and Gallower decided to prove that music inspired by the classics is not just highway speeding, or it came out by chance, but there are more tempo changes here than on the band's previous releases. And, believe me, these slower parts are not softer at all. Perhaps, in fact, there's more of a heavy-metal shtick in them, but just as many razor-sharp harmonies. The band's traditional selling point is its sound. Gallower's recordings from the beginning resemble in this respect the albums of the bands our boys are inspired by. I won't discover America, either, by saying that Tzar does a great job as a singer. The guy has an awesome tone of voice, knows when to be rougher and when to “squeak” or sing in the choruses. And then there's that fantastic, old-school drumming. At times it's like being cut out from early Kreator or Sodom albums. I'll be honest and say that I wanted to point out a few tracks from this album at first, but after a few listens I decided it was pointless, because each of them has its own face, and none of them goes below the high level that the album represents as a whole. So to keep it short, to anyone with a taste for retro music at the highest level, I can recommend “Vengeance & Wrath” along with a written guarantee of quality. Signed with both of my hands.

jesusatan



..::TRACK-LIST::..

1. Aftermath / Protector's Militia 04:51
2. The Revelation 02:54
3. Relentless Retaliation 04:32
4. Bubonic Breath 04:49
5. March Of The Carmine Cloaks 05:43
6. Prophecy Of The Seven 05:42
7. The Dead Despise The Living 03:41
8. Vengeance & Wrath 05:53
9. Demonic Ascent 04:59



..::OBSADA::..

T.C. Speedfire - Drums
Vic Nocturnitier - Guitars
Mighty Tzar - Vocals, Bass



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