Conquering The Throne

Conquering The Throne

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
1999 debut album by death metal group featuring guitarist Erik Rutan, formerly of Ripping Corpse and Morbid Angel fame. 11 tracks.

Tracks:

Praise Of The Almighty
Dogma Condemned
Catacombs
Nailed To Obscurity
By His Own Decree
The Creed Of Chaotic Divinity
Dethroned
Sacrilege Of Hate
Spiritual Holocaust
Darkness By Oath
Saturated In Dejection

Album Description

1999 debut album by death metal group featuring guitarist Erik Rutan, formerly of Ripping Corpse and Morbid Angel fame. 11 tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Brutally Heavy.......2006-08-04

Erik Rutan has been a leader in the death metal scene for a few years, now. His masterful work with Trey Azagthoth and Morbid Angel raised some eyebrows. Conquering the Throne was the debut album with his own band, Hate Eternal. Death metal has never really been known for positive band names and Hate Eternal is a very intimidating band name for the genre, to say the least. The music lives up to the title, as it is extremely ferocious and unrelenting.

Conquering the Throne starts off with 'Praise of the Almighty' and the blast beats, riffs and brutal vocals will literally pound your face again and again. 'Dogma Condemned' is a song that will make you think you are getting hit with bricks. 'Darkness by Oath' is the longest song present with a whopping time of just over four minutes, rather short for some death metal. (Nile creates some death metal epics over 9 minutes long) These death metal songs are fast, and will just keep pounding the listener into the ground.

This is about as heavy as extreme death metal gets. Bands that come close are Suffocation, Nile, and possibly Cryptopsy. Personally, I hear music similar to Morbid Angel's style, but that is expected because Rutan wrote a lot of the music in 'Domination' and 'Gateways to Annihilation.' I recently saw Hate Eternal live in the Spring of 2006 with Arch Enemy. As my good friend says, "seeing Hate Eternal live is about the equivelent of getting run over by a truck." The music is extremely heavy and unrelenting. Listeners will either enjoy Hate Eternal, or despise the style. Erik Rutan is a genius and his music is above all, extreme. \M/

Sub-par death metal.......2006-06-29

Just so you know, it's not because I don't like death metal I'm giving this album a low score. On the contrary, I think it's a very respectable style which can deliver some of the best music out there at its best. However, Hate Eternal do not represent the best death metal has to offer.

The biggest problem with "Conquering The Throne" is its fundamental musical direction. It is a simple fact that death metal bands generally sacrifice melody in pursuit of extremity. However they usually compensate for this with instrumental harmonies increasing the music's level of tightness, power and groove. Perfect examples of this ethic can be found in Decapitated, Malevolent Creation and above all the mighty Cryptopsy. Even Nile, who bear a striking resemblance to Hate Eternal in terms of style, pull themselves back from the brink of anti-musicality by use of their Egyptian thematic for atmosphere. However "Conquering The Throne" has no such trumph card. It sacrifices everything in pursuit of utter brutality, and while this is found, the music itself becoms an amelodic dirge.

The guitar work on this album, while it is tight and technical, the riffs themselves, the actual assemblances of chords, I found to be grating and ugly, and play little which could genuinely be called "memorable." They are really of little merit to anyone aside from aspiring death metal guitarists. An equally large problem can be found in the drumming. Instead of providing it's own layer to the music, it DOMINATES, blanketing and muffling everything else with a wall of blastbeats. If you want a band who actually use blastbeats in accordance with the rest of the music, try looking up Krisiun. While these rhythms are remarkably well played, and maintained at a speed which can be considered crazy even by the standards of death metal, they're of little value when the only purpose they serve is utter brutality in place of musicality. Oh, and the vocals? Average death metal fare; nothing more, nothing less.

So, in conclusion then: technical, brutal, and very, very ugly. Hate Eternal are a talented band, but the way their songs are written, putting speed and ferocity above all else, makes for a hell of a grating experience. Death metal virtuosos may enjoy it; everyone else is reccomended to stay far away.

Beware of Amazon, they have the wrong sku posted for this item.......2005-10-24

I've tried to order this c.d. off amazon 3 times and all 3 times it's been refunded by the seller, because of a bar code issue, meaning they never really had it in the first place, but amazon listed that they did. While this happens to only a small number of items on amazon, it can sometimes mean you getting the wrong c.d. because what you see on amazon isn't always the same as the seller gets an e-mail to send. I've been lucky that they caught mine.

cheers,
Oh by the way, the c.d. kicks ass. Way more grove than the following King of All Kings.

Good Stuff.......2005-07-05

Really good cd from Erik Rutan and Co. Songs have variety to them and the solos are very good.

Great death metal.......2005-07-05

I had first heard "King of All Kings". The only complaint I had was that the drums sounded paper thin. I recently heard "I, Monarch" and was impressed, so I had to hear where it all started. I am a HUGE fan of great drumming, and Tim Yeung DEFINITELY hit the spot. He reminds me of Tony Laureno and Dave Culross.

The only complaint I have is, yes, the songs run together. They are a bit samey, but I listen to Deeds of Flesh and it's hard to decipher their songs, so, I am used to it.

I am not going to bash the 'ole Slipknot fan but I will say this much...I am tired of death metal being called talentless. I had a teacher at school rip into about 18 different bands because "he plays guitar and listens to Dave Matthews and knows that they use 3 power chords" it irritates me just because he hates the growling.

Get this album, you won't be disappointed.