Gehenna - Unravel

Gehenna Unravel cover
Gehenna
Unravel
Indie Recordings
2013
0.5
8 years after “WW”, Gehenna leaves us wondering why! Expectations weren’t meet in the slightest! Why’s that? The two new members, the guitarist Skinndød (Throne of Katarsis) & the drummer Slátrarinn (ex-Thurs) didn’t help a bit, even though they are not responsible for this insipid work.
 
Apart from the very good obscure cover artwork, everything else here fall into the “disaster” category. Gehenna sound like a third rate teenager band which tries hard to be evil, badass and extreme. No, ideas, no creativity & lame songwriting! It’s to wonder how they managed to succeed such a thing! Even the production is kinda weak, like the ones the 90s black metal bands used to have.
 
If this is a bad joke then I can go with it and bypass this album like it never existed. If it is for real then something is way wide of the mark. Hadn’t the label heard of this “album” before it was released? Are you kidding me? The A&R manager who gave the OK, is tone-deaf or what? I haven’t heard something so uninspiring, tasteless, tedious, unlistenable, shitty, & monotonous since my early 90s days when I was fully into black metal. Let’s cut the crap now… where’s the actual Gehenna album?!!