HAIDUK (Canada)
"Exomancer"
(Independent)
Release date: October 17th 2018
Genre: Blackened death metal, thrash metal
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HAIDUK is a one man project from Calgary, Canada, and it is the brainchild of Luka Milojica, who founded the project in 2010. He released the "Plagueswept" demo the same year, and 2018 saw the release of HAIDUK's third full length album.
"Exomancer" has been out for about ten months, and has harvested a vast amount of praise from various zines, sites and blogs such as this one, has sold albums worldwide and appeared on diverse compilations and radio stations.
The album is ten tracks strong, but only clocks in at half an hour in length. The album is very intense all the way through, from the opening riffs of "Death Portent" throughout "Crypternity, which concludes the album half an hour later, there is nothing but fast, piercing riffs and technical guitar work that sum up to a total of black, shattering, infernal brutality. There are hints of Slayer and Cryptopsy, Deicide, Crest of Darkness and Mayhem, and it's all done with a devastating intensity that leaves listeners such as yours truly a little stunned.
Milojica is a technically skilled musician, and creates complex imageries with his arrangements. Somehow I am reminded by the guitar work that Rune Eriksen on Mayhem's "Grand Declaration of War" twenty years back. Fast, intense, and colorful in all its blackness, which also is a suitable description for HAIDUK's third full length.
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
Tracklist
1. Death Portent
2. Unsummon
3. Evil Art
4. Subverse
5. Icevoid Nemesis
6. Doom Seer
7. Pulsar
8. Blood Ripple
9. Once Flesh
10. Crypternity
HAIDUK:
Luka Milojica - vocals, guitars, drum programming, mix/mastering
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