Porn
The Darkest of Human Desires - Act II

Porn comes up with a second act to their story, it follows Mr Strangle who is born from the ogre in the first act winning the internal struggle – against morality I suppose. We follow a murderous and massacreous guy in ten chapters, from the looks of it we get more or less the same as the previous act that was the album called The Ogre Inside from 2017. The artwork goes in the same style and looks really dull. On the back of the digipak the tracks are listed from 10-19, as the first nine was listen on the back of the previous digipak. So how about it then, is the album anything worth having?

On the subject of the style it is more or less the same kind of industrial or gothic metal as we heard on the previous album, same kind of typical gothic styled vocals. The production is quite okay, nothing special but it works. Pretty ordinary vocals on this album and the variation of the songs are quite standard for the genre. There are no surprises to be heard here but at least they keep the ten tracks to a sensible playing time, something that is always a positive.

Raving murdering and massacres in the lyrics, fairly typically gothic in the music – I think they could have been and probably should have been a bit darker in their style. It is kind of the same as the previous album in every regard, the same style and the same quality and I don’t think this is any better. It is a logical second act for their story and you will probably like it if you like Porn, and then you will probably look forward to the final act that most likely will contain a lot more sex and stuff. Personally I am not that sure I am looking forward to the next act, not if it will be more of the same as the first two – just okay doesn’t really peek my interest. Sure it is too good to be considered bad – but it isn’t that interesting.

Not the most exciting release but those into the gothic metal genre will probably find that this French act is rather good. I think that it is a solid gothic album that is well put together, but it is not a particularly memorable album and what they do has been done better by other bands so it will not be an album featuring amongst the highlights when one looks back at 2019.

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