If the cover suggests metal on a relentless, apocalyptic scale, then the music it houses fulfils that promise. Yes, the first chord is a sweetly struck acoustic strum... but then dissonance builds, a swirl of feedback and then all hell breaks loose and there’s very little let-up during the course of twelve tracks with an average running time in the two and a half minute region.
It’s a flurry of fury from beginning to end, but sometimes they manage to kick it up yet another gear, as on the 1:38 atheistic anthem ‘False Prophet’ which explodes with double-pedalled bass drumming and the nihilistic refrain ‘No-one is coming back from the dead!’. The title track is a black metal vortex of churning guitars, overdriven to the max atop a piledriving rhythm section that assaults the listener without mercy.
There’s a discernible melody to be found gracing ‘True Love’, but don’t for a second think it’s a sign that Enabler are going for the pop market. That said, the chiming guitars that weave against the knotty bass make for a welcome contrast, and similarly, the darkly epic-sounding intro to ‘They Live, we Sleep’, which really slows the tempo reveals another facet to the band’s songwriting palette. Herein lies the key to the success of ‘All Hail the Void’, in that it abundantly demonstrates Enabler’s capacity for fearsome brutality, but at the same time, shows versatility and depth, not to mention a real knack for darkly atmospheric and evocative music.
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It’s powerful stuff, and with ‘All Hail the Void’, Enabler stride leagues ahead of their peers, leaving them in a streaming flow of molten metal lava.
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