I missed the last album 2022s Born to be Dead, from Rogga Johansson’s Revolting project, just one of his 258 bands. However, the last time I heard them, on 2020s The Shadow at the World’s End, it was clear I was getting a bit bored with them, despite really enjoying the 3 album run of The Terror Threshold, In Grisly Rapture and Hymns of Ghastly Horror.

But at the tail end of 2024, Revolting dropped yet another album, their ninth, and I wanted to see if the band sparked my interest again, or was this just another Rogga retread? Well to my surprise, The Night of the Horrid has indeed delivered a ‘fun’, catchy take on Swedish Death metal.

The formula, as with most of Johansson’s projects is simple, yet effective, and Revolting is indeed still his catchiest project, with a tone reminiscent of Dismember’s latter catalog. The 33-minute affair is 10 fairly similar songs of melodic Swedish death metal with a focus on galloping,  cantering riffs, and leads that are mostly all pretty identical in pace and speed. Basically the Massive Killing Capacity era of Dismember, with some Death Metal and Hate Campaign thrown in.

As I said, all ten tracks tread familiar territory, but they sometimes hit the mark pretty hard, such as the mid-album run of  “Hell From the sky”, “A Song For the Morbid” and “Shapeshifter”, and the album’s last few groovier tracks “Swipe of the Schyte”, “The Final Journey” and “Mask and Mallet”, which both give me heavy “Casket Garden” vibes.

Revolting remains a predictable if consistent band in Rogga’s arsenal, but I’m glad they are back on my radar with a solid ninth album.

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