Alchemical Warfare (studio album)
by Dread Sovereign
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Dread Sovereign bestography
Alchemical Warfare is ranked as the best album by Dread Sovereign.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Alchemical Warfare track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Alchemical Warfare rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  LedZep | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 86/100 | 1 |
| 2025 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 21/100 | 4 |
| 2025 | conallmalone | Irish Albums | 18/79 | - |
| 2025 | vruslov | Top 95 Music Albums of 2021 | 24/95 | 4 |
| 2024 |  EyeKanFly | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 77/100 | 1 |
| 2024 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 90/100 | 1 |
| 2023 | conallmalone | Favourite Metal Albums | 32/100 | - |
| 2023 | conallmalone | Top 65 Music Albums of the 2020s | 13/65 | 9 |
| 2023 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 96/100 | 0 |
| 2023 | Repo | 2021: Metal | 7/31 | - |
| 2022 |  Mercury | 101-200 Albums of 2021 | 88/98 | - |
| 2022 | conallmalone | Top 25 Music Albums of 2021 | 9/25 | 3 |
| 2021 | Repo | 2021 AOTW Queue: Decisions, Decisions!!! | 5/11 | - |
| 2021 | Distorted Sound Magazine | Top 100 Albums of 2021 | 59/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 14 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 25 | |||
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Alchemical Warfare ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/03/2022 10:41 | conallmalone | 1,731 | 74/100 |
| ! | 05/19/2021 14:22 | LedZep | 4,837 | 79/100 |
| ! | 02/10/2021 03:22 | Repo | 2,129 | 85/100 |
| ! | 02/05/2021 16:02 | Mercury | 1,669 | 81/100 |
| ! | 02/01/2021 14:15 | LosWochos | 46,624 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.7/100, a mean average of 65.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 65.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 22.6.
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Repo 02/10/2021 03:23 | #266102
AOTW #6: One To Rule Them All (2/9)
Dread Sovereign deliver a master class in Doom on Alchemical Warfare. Epic, diverse, dynamic & well crafted. The kind of album that gives you chills up your spine because everything is just so perfect. So good. The kind that makes you wish you were back in ninth grade so you could pass notes in class like secrets about this special thing you discovered. Dread Sovereign seem to take in the whole world of Doom in and then breath it back out with a fresh, novel spin. With nods to to the past as diverse as Hellhammer and Reagars' Saint Vitus but in ways that that don't seem like a retread.
This is one of those album’s where you discover a new best song every time you listen to it. Just face it. You don’t need to worship Satan to realize that this is going to be one of the best metal albums of the year. Mark it down. I'm calling it here in February.
Highly Recommended!
Mercury 01/23/2021 19:48 | #264946
75 to 80/100 (Consistently great Doom Metal and Traditional Metal throwback album. As the first metal album I've heard this year, I can say it didn't disappoint.)
This album fucking rips! I don't have a ton to say and I am no connoisseur of all thing DOOOM METAL and Traditional Heavy Metal. But damn! The first 3 tracks just started this album off with a slow building, monolithic power that instantly got me hooked. The Riffs are just these heavy, effective, classic-sounding giants and the guitar leads and solos and the guitar that often times is embellishing over the top of the main riffage with these sick and atmosphere-enriching lines is incredible. The solos themselves are never showy, but you can hear the deliberate and brilliant melodies of each one. The vocals are okay to AMMMAAAZING on this album. When A.A. Nemtheanga goes absolutely balls to the wall vitriolic on the very Judas Priest-y closing track "You Don't Move Me (I Don't Give A Fuck" holy shit it hits so hard! When he is singing in a more traditional metal voice its consistently good, and its never cringy, only compared to the heights he reaches on a few songs, it can get a little irritating for me in comparison.
The more traditional metal songs are hit or miss. Or rather they span from absolute bangers and some of the best metal I've heard in awhile ("Nature is the Devil's Church" and "Ruin Upon The Temple Mount" ) to just fine and somewhat forgettable.
The lyrics are a bunch Satanic mumbo-jumbo that I am not super or at all interested in. Fine for what it is.
Anyway, this was a really, REALLY solid metal album. First metal of any kind that I've heard from 2021 so far. Was a nice feeling to dive back into Metal via this very good record.
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