{"id":9723,"date":"2014-02-27T06:12:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/susperia\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:12:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T14:12:26","slug":"susperia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/susperia\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Susperia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sus.jpg\" alt=\"sus\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nSusperia<br \/>\n&#8220;\u0093Predominance\u0094&#8221;<br \/>\n(Nuclear Blast)<\/h4>\n<p>Susperia is an odd band to hear, they are almost black metal, but not at all. \u00a0Formed by Tjodalv (ex-Dimmu Borgir) and members of several other almost-black metal bands like Old Man\u0092s Child, Predominance displays a post-black metal sound. \u00a0Rather impressive drumming helps this act massively, but considering them in terms of black metal will do them little justice. \u00a0Highly melodic, and more mid-paced than much of the black metal scene tends to be, counting Susperia among the likes of Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir is far more telling of their sound. \u00a0Though it must be said that Predominance displays much of its own unique sound, which isn&#8217;\u0092t bad for modern metal. \u00a0Much in same way that most of black (read satanic) metal, especially COF, goes a little overboard with the whole evil thing, Susperia tends to trap its focus along those lines. \u00a0Titles like \u0093Illusions of Evil\u0094 and \u0093Blood on my Hands\u0094 will give you some idea of what they are writing about. \u00a0But as so many metal fans profess, it\u0092s not the lyrics that are important; it\u0092s the music. \u00a0As metal goes redominance is pretty good, a little on the pop side of things; sounding like they intend to make a few more dollars then credibility points, but oh well, they still are catchy. \u00a0From time to time you will get let down sonically, too often the guitar solos sound like power metal, snore. \u00a0Vocalist Athera has a very decent black metal growl, but his use of clean singing is\u0085well annoying. \u00a0Oddly enough, the drumming is almost too technical for the rest of the band. \u00a0When the double bass gets going full speed, the rest of the band starts to sound slightly pale. \u00a0Over all it\u0092s your call, if you\u0092re a die-hard Cradle or Dimmu fan, this will definitely please. \u00a0If you can handle a compromise \u0093true\u0094 black metal ethics, then stay away, but for most there will be bits and pieces that will please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susperia &#8220;\u0093Predominance\u0094&#8221; (Nuclear Blast) Susperia is an odd band to hear, they are almost black metal, but not at all. \u00a0Formed by Tjodalv (ex-Dimmu Borgir) and members of several other almost-black metal bands like Old Man\u0092s Child, Predominance displays a post-black metal sound. \u00a0Rather impressive drumming helps this act massively, but considering them in terms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[3590,5247,7032],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}