Five albums in for this Florida-based quartet and “The Ultimate Deception” is the first time I have heard of them. Cannot say I’ve been missing a lot as I have mixed feelings about Wykked Wytch’s newest record. Although I admire the band’s effort to combine numerous influences instead of drawing exclusively from one source, sometimes the convergence of such disparate styles as black metal and deathcore doesn’t work in their favour and sounds a bit clumsy.
The album opens with “Birthing the Beast”, a fierce and dark theme that sees Wykked Wytch exploring the pompous and theatrical black metal popularized by acts like Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir.
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