Artist: Urkraft
Title: The True Protagonist
Label: Massacre Records
Cat #: MASD1248
Release Year: 2022
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Digipak

“The True Protagonist,” the fifth album from the Danish death metal veterans Urkraft.

It is a concept album circulating the discussion between a split-minded, schizophrenic persona called Mr. Case. Each track is the subject that Mr. Cases split personality, as a lecturer in a therapy group, is discussing during one of his infamous public shows. Shows where they walk through the pros and cons of the matter and focus, challenging various concepts with a role model and victim - which is the album's tracklist - as they try to figure out: “- who is the true protagonist?”

Religion, politics, concepts of existence and reality are all translated through aggressive blast beats and righteous guitar riffs on this philosophical death metal album from Denmark. Bringing new elements to the process is something unique in style that these Danish fellows have never done before.

Starting out with a more modern Death Metal sound, rather than what I would consider traditional, it has a big sound, almost a theatrical feel to it. The title track, second in line, “The Protagonist,” sets the mood with the deep howls of the ominous vocals and crying baby overlaying the staged terror. It is not just a cry, but a very disturbing cry. The picture is being painted on where we are about to go.

Recommended if you like: Illdisposed, Hypocrisy, Darkane, Hatesphere, Defleshed, Miseration, Carnal Forge, Nightrage, The Haunted, The Crown

Track Listing:
1. Uforskyldte Sår
2. The True Protagonist
3. I Got Blood
4. I Bring Nothing To The Table
5. The Human Resignation
6. The Burden Without A Name
7. Well Intentioned Sons
8. Go, Get Your Bones
9. Changing Manscape
10. Prepare The Flesh
11. We Can't Recognize