Shchugor – II – HeavyPop.at

by Oliver
on January 17, 2023
in Album

Chugor lay just a few days following their debut II following – and are then also kind enough to number their works clearly, where the discography of Windiness was a chronological nightmare.

The bad news first: Considering how formulaic it already is I was basically laid out, it is fundamentally uninspiring that II continues on the same track – if you look for differences to the predecessor, you can attest the second round to be more holistic than the official debut, to have a more seamless flow and, despite longer songs and only a minimally shorter playing time, to ignite more entertaining.

Nice Winter acts with exemplary power, as energetic as it is hungry and urgently bares its teeth before the number escalates to a manic finale including a punky climax. Also the picturesque malice Tortured in the Ice works more directly, pulls the astral Mount Eerie-Melancholy into a rabid maelstrom and bathes the shredder spherically.
The banter, including tricky, stumbling, halting rhythms around typically standardized blasting, galloping behavior patterns in Coldest Eternity remain rather noncommittal in the course of 20 minutes, but the program of piercing, cutting, hissing screams of poisonous nihilism in a punky, aggressive train winds relatively without serious lengths.
So the good news is: Although the ambient passages now unfortunately play a reduced role, is II in some respects already a step in the right direction and an improvement compared to I.

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