Throne Of Chaos - Menace And Prayer

*=Staff's pick	From Clarity to Insanity* The Scaffold Scenario* Cold Bits of Fire* Bloodstained Prophecy* Menace and Prayer Synthetia Opus Void* Divanity*

Genre	Death Metal	Mr. Kiljunen	Vocals
Tracks	8	Mr. Kiljunen	Guitar
Runningtime	39 Min.	Mr. Harmaja	Guitar
Label	Naula	Mr. Nora	Bass
Release	30 Apr.2001	Mr. Laitinen	Drums
Country	Finland	Mr. Sjöblom	Keyboards
Similar artists	Children of Bodom

When spinning off the first track on this album, the similarities with In Flames were as obvious as ever can be.
But that was only for the first 30 seconds, during the opening riff, cause during the rest of the album it's hard, to not say impossible, to make that comparision, which can be seen or red elsewhere in other reviews.

Throne of Chaos from Finland are moving somewhere in the outer realms of black metal, with strong similarities to their countrymen Children of Bodom's musical style, but without for one second giving us a reason to fee that they are ripping them off.

Throne of Chaos have found the perfect balance between old school black metal sound, and today's power metal - it's only Mr. Kiljunen's vocals that makes it feel more like the first mentioned, since it comparable with the common black metal sound - but I must say that it was a long time since I heard a singer of this genre that performs this well.

One lick, melody and riff are replacing the other here, and the band show themself to master the fine art of handeling their instruments with the honours.
The keyword in the Throne of Chaos camp seems to be "melodies", and that is what differs them from most other black metal groups that is located in my other neighbourcountry(spelled Norway).

There are only pure killersongs on this album, with the first 5 ones as extra worthy to mention, and then especially Cold Bits of Fire which is a mindblowing track, with guitarlicks and riffs that goes to the historybooks.

This career will be highly interesting to follow - they have all the potential to be able to make themselves a name of Children of Bodom's caliber.