The Undiscovered Country
TERRORIZER 4½ (5)

Having been around since, oooh, forever, Sweden’s Oldest Living Metal Band Destiny pull few punches when it comes to showing young scallywags such as fellow Göteburgers Hammerfall how all things True and Swedish and Heavy and Metal should be done. Which is not to say that they reside in a similar musical neighborhood – far from it, in fact – rather, that hearing albums as fluently heavy as "The Undiscovered Country" merely reminds the casual listener of how far the already-stellar Nuclear Blast recording artists have yet to travel before they reach the golden gates of Metvalhalla.
Destiny are already there, toasting the gods with fallen heroes such as Heavy Load and Quarthon (and Quarthon has fallen. Make no mistake). Though it is only their fourth album in sixteen years, "The Undiscovered Country" sounds for all the world like the Swedish veterans have been releasing material with regularity of an obsessive prune eater. At times imbued with doom-laden lurch of Candlemass in their prime, at other s harking back to classic Sabbath, Priest and Fate, Destiny combine the best of several metallic worlds and in "The Undiscovered Country" have delivered one helluva comeback album. Awesome.

Reviewed by Greagory Whalen - TERRORIZER