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“Avec Christ Killer, Merlin réussit cet exploit dont très peu de groupes sont capables (le dernier en date à m'avoir fait ressentir ça, c'était Panopticon) : vous faire venir pour une raison évidente mais vous faire rester pour une autre, beaucoup plus inattendue. Le quintette américain perfectionne son doom metal psychédélique, met en transe avec ses riffs lourds et n'a pas peur des grandes envolées ("Execution"). Mais là où il est addictif, c'est avec son esthétique western spaghetti — oui !”
Nocturnal Egg (Jordan) · favourite track: The Christkiller
“Progressive doom metal with a bluesy edge to their fuzzy guitar grooves! A psychedelic presence is also there, this time without the saxophone.....There’s also some good old Rock ‘n’ Roll !”
Stephan · favourite track: Lucifer's Revenge
“I never knew there was a 'spaghetti western doom' genre of metal. Now I've been enlightened. And my life is much better for it. Why isn't everyone buying this?”
“Seems to me this is a bit of a "concept album" and I'm not sayin that is a bad thing. Probably my favorite of the group I bought. Moves from ethereal to heavy and back. Someone likened this to spaghetti western doom, hell yeah!”
Misfit1969 · favourite track: Deal with the Devil
“This is a psychedelic concept album based on Nick Cave's script for Gladiator 2 in which Maximus is sent back to earth by the Roman gods to kill Christ who is causing their deaths as his worshippers increase and their's decline. The songs are killer psychedelic stoner epics, culminating in a ten minute instrumental called Christ Killer that begins like a spaghetti western soundtrack, evoking images of a Sergio Leone stand-off that then just keeps building to the cathartic climax of the record.”
Sonny92 · favourite track: The Christkiller