Weave The Apocalypse 1993

"Less aggressive and more complex than "Excursion demise", but no less brutal "Weave the Apocalypse" is a .a progressive, yet brutal, Thrash Metal album, whose influences are apparent.

The pace is considerably slower on this one than on "Excursion Demise", the riffs being much heavier and the production sound much more brutal. The arrival of able guitarist Perle Hansen allows for in more refined, melodic and technical guitar solos than on "Excursion Demise", and drummer Per M. Jensen's work seems to draw on more progressive drumming along the lines of Dream Theater, Fates Warning and Psychotic Waltz without totally throwing away the Lombardo-esque explosive style witnessed on "Excursion Demise". On the whole, "Weave the apocalypse" is a quite progressive album with comples drumming and rhythmic patterns, some odd time signatures cropping up here and there, and also offers some complex almost jazzy bass patterns. At the same time, it also seems to draw on the groovy brutality of the almost percussive-like guitar rhythm patterns introduced into modern metal by Pantera.

Invocator blends all of these influences together into a very original type of groovy/brutal/progressive thrash metal album, which rivals Death's "Symbolic" in complexity, musical prowess and brutality and is highly recommended to any metal aficionado."