We Force It To Speak by Eternal Drak<\/a><\/p>\nThe bad news is The Violence of Time is amongst the most drab, listless, flaccid releases I\u2019ve ever heard. It\u2019s astounding how Eternal Drak have managed to take a genre known for its vim and vigor and cranked out an album devoid of true highlights, energy, or memorability. The few leads sound almost cliched in their approach, like the worlds safest imitation of what good thrash shredding is supposed to sound like, and are gone as quickly as they start. The vast majority of the songs operate in mid-gear, with the occasional spurts of speed collapsing back into monotonous mid-paced chugging. \u201cThe Cosmos Rejects You\u201d really tries to sell its main chorus as a violent, mountain-crushing moment with Ben blasting his heart out, but repeatedly returns to verses which try to be atmospheric but only serve to be anticlimactic. \u201cNo Direction Total War\u201d falters as an album climax with a short chorus repeated to the point of obnoxiousness, and opening track \u201cWe Force It to Speak\u201d aspires to be a dramatic curtain-raising kickoff, but its monotonous repetition and lethargic lead style only serve to be an accurate warning to the listener for what lies within. <\/p>\n
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Experiments, adventurousness, and memorable moments are so minuscule as to be almost nonexistent. The biggest curveball comes by way of \u201cThe Blasphemy of Time\u201d with a blast-beat suddenly introducing uncredited lady vocals for a chorus. She sounds swell, but her sudden arrival is jarring, used for isolated lines rather than anything approaching texture or layering. Eternal Drak try their own hand at cleans with \u201cBreathing Once Again\u201d, a completely unnecessary power ballad in the middle of an already sluggish album, with Drakar doing his best Godsmack impression without the hefty chords to back him up. In point of fact, these two flirtations with clean vocals are the only memorable element of The Violence of Time, for better and worse. I\u2019ve rarely heard an album that objectively has high BPM and still manages to sound this slow. The leads are boring. The riffs are boring. The incessant abuse of chugging is boring. The constant waltz time signatures over what should be atmospheric and menacing scales are boring. This album isn\u2019t blackened as much as dimmed, and doesn\u2019t thrash as much as wriggle, and given the potency of the genre, that\u2019s a real shame. <\/p>\n
Eternal Drak have dropped the safest album I\u2019ve heard all year, carefully engineered to be as inoffensive and bland as possible. Amnesia-inducing, insomnia-conquering, and performed with the conviction that surely everything played is friggin\u2019 awesome, The Violence of Time is as memorable as your college statistics class, as delightful as your grocery store having a sale on lint brushes, and as intense as toddlers pillowfighting. It\u2019s genuinely disappointing, as the production really is fantastic, and I\u2019d kill to hear some actually worthwhile songs presented in this soundscape. I\u2019d say I look forward to forgetting this album, but it does an excellent job erasing itself from your memory on its own as soon as each playthrough concludes. For audiophiles and genre diehards only; I\u2019m off to go find another album which will be less violent with my time. <\/p>\n
Rating: 1.5\/5.0
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: FirstWave Studio<\/a>
Website: Album Bandcamp<\/a>
Releases Worldwide: July 17th, 2026<\/p>\n\n\tGive in to Your Anger:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve wrestled with this intro more than I typically do. There\u2019s a joke in here somewhere about how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[47906,4155,255868,31779,146,255869,255870,255871,85,46,237673,409,1529,1530,255872],"class_list":["post-564958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1-5","tag-4155","tag-blackened-thrash","tag-canadian-metal","tag-entertainment","tag-eternal-drak","tag-firstwave-studio","tag-godsmack","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jul26","tag-music","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-the-violence-of-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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I\u2019ve wrestled with this intro more than I typically do. There\u2019s a joke in here somewhere about how the title, The Violence of Time could only be charitably described as \u201cunfortunate.\u201d I\u2019ve had flashbacks to mandatory HR meetings, to that brief time I worked for a house painting company, and that one day a relative wanted to give me a long and detailed story about health issues involving sores on her bum. But no amount of witticisms and anecdotes can properly convey the fact that this album, for its strengths (such as they are), is boring. Ghastly, appallingly boring. Eternal Drak have descended from Canada with their fourth album, a blueprint of all the ways blackened thrash ought not to be executed. <\/p>\n