Mighty and menacing thundering comes across… Fatal reason: Ivenberg hailing with brute and martial manner into our ears with their important third studio album! These extremely bulky teutonic disk has been created certainly with litres of darkest heartblood and with immense compositorical joy. And one can hear the massive progression of the German Melodic Black Death Metal-troup clearly. It’s simply a fact: herein reigns absolute artistic frankness in all imaginable musical issues. Fiery baptized on the programmatic and remarkable album title „Wunden“, these delicious lusty hell-turner reveals the successful aims of the currish wrath-horde for significant artistic identity. Luckily done: Ivenberg show a face! Outstanding specialty of the cursing hammer-horde inside all their new creations: truly brutish aggressive, technically accomplished and arch-sombre appearing guitar-attacks! Monumental riffings we do have here therefore, which firing not rarely as quick as an well filled brew-kettle, full of fresh kerosine. And with their capable handled lead-axes Ivenberg sorcering often times marvellous catchy moments ouf of the speakers, which go easily under the skin. Considerable fit at their instrumental cooperation, appreciable trained at their passes and with gigantic enthusiasm at the start now, the flaming German hate-quartet stands above many competitors with its new angry output. Appearing with rigid and sovereign rhythm-earthquakes, also the really bone-crushing and edged drum-work doesn’t stand behind at all on these outstanding elaborated release: for the drumsticks of grim cauldron-keeper Besegra pounding as fast and spry on his coppers as huge and ultra-heavy demolition hammers. Sheer not to believe! Additional these sinister flails from Coburg are firing on their new output with welcome provoking razor-sharp words in the most authentic and truest manner: lyrics directly from the dirty and dusty road. Vocalist and guitar-monster Morsan gives namely a complete shit about any compromises of his contents and battles on „Wounds“ with immense effective and bloody throat-assaults. With „Wounds“ Ivenberg show all the rest of the scene, how it’s still possible nowadays, to palpitate acute the basement of the profession with lots of confidence and burning fervency.
