Coming in with Swedish Death Metal all over it The Reprobate by Firespawn delivers fast, memorable top-notch riffage but falls short in other areas such as songwriting and vocal performance. These guys seem to have a great riff generator as each song features bold, heavy rhythms which carry the record quickly through its forty-two minutes. That being said, the riffs could use some more variance and unfortunately they are placed into a formulaic verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo song structure in literally every single track. The quality of the riffs ends up becoming diluted and repetitive. Speaking of repetition: the singer sticks to the same guttural growl for one-hundred percent of every vocal part. By itself, this approach really hurts the album's replay-ability especially because this growl isn't exactly the most inspiring, passionate or powerful one out there. Lastly, the songs all have interesting and appropriate themes and feature really good lyrical hooks in the choruses. This stands out as it is not usually what one comes to find in Death Metal. High quality riffs, lyrics and good solos but boring vocals and identical song structures leave The Reprobate somewhere right above average.
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