Graveland – Spears Of Heaven (2009)

May 28, 2024

I’ve been spending a lot of time with Spears Of Heaven recently, purely because I don’t really know how I feel about it. On the surface of it, it’s like a poor man’s version of Will Stronger Than Death, at least in regards to production and the incredibly grating drum programming, which seems to have lost all nuance and is reduced to a ear-fatiguing series of clicks and clatters. On the other hand, in isolation, nearly every track on Spears Of Heaven is an excellent Graveland track. So there is quite the dilemma here. I guess the decision is easy to make however, when there is so much Graveland material, and a lot of which is better – then the choice is easy. This may make Spears Of Heaven an underdog of sorts.