Oppressor
Agony

Dear friends, today I am about to introduce you to an album that I bought just a few days ago from my trusted record store. This is "Agony" by OPPRESSOR.

Released in 1996, the band's lineup consisted of Tim King on vocals and keyboards, Adam Zadel on lead guitar, Tom Schofield on drums, and Jim Stopper on rhythm guitar. This album features impressive technique, especially from the two guitarists who unleash an abundance of riffs from the six strings, and the drummer's impressive technique with his continuous double bass hits. Another fundamental characteristic is also Tim King's growl.

The first song, "Gone," has an impressive attack, opened with the impressive growl and the fabulous creativity of the two guitarists who add a touch of great class to this opening track. The second song, "Suffersystem," is nothing but a prelude to destruction that anticipates the third song, "In Exile," once again dominated by the guitarists and the drums, at times also featuring a second demonic voice claiming to want to steal someone's soul, and it's nothing but an escape against the forces of evil. Then there's "Passage," the fourth track of the album, one of my favorite songs from the album. There's genuine malice in the lyrics here, but it's even better how it is performed by the band very quickly and, at times, very intricate, thanks to the strange lyrics on which the two guitarists work hard.
Next is "Valley Of Thorns," and it's precisely in this song that you can hear the true technique, at times melodic and at other times fierce; it's here that you can hear the melodic solos of Adam Zadel followed by the singer’s keyboard that pauses the song with a small motif only to bring it back to pure ferocity unleashed by the other instruments. Next is "Redefine," which is the opposite of "Valley Of Thorns," not melodic at all at times but with a specific technique that makes it stand out from the others; in fact, the instrumental part is more highlighted than the vocals here.

Number seven, "Sea Of Tears," doesn’t halt the momentum of the whole album, continuing its destructive work without stopping, even if at times melodic, but it certainly doesn’t slow down the speed in which the song is executed. Instead, it adds a touch more to make it seem even more fierce and devastating. The penultimate song is "I Am Darkness" which is about to conclude the destructive work of OPPRESSOR, but precisely this is characterized by a beautiful rhythm and also characterized by various guitar solos beneath the cursed words pronounced, "I Am Darkness".
The destructive work is concluded by the last track of the album, "Carnal Voyage," very similar to "I Am Darkness," which concludes the great destructive work of this great journey to the land of the underworld.

I highly recommend this to great fans of death metal, a very violent album that is at times melodic, highlighted especially by the guitarists and the singer but also by the drummer who is no less impressive. With this, I conclude. Goodbye.