Band:	Interfector
Album:	The Force Within
Style:	Progressive metal
Release date:	May 2004

01. Mother Serbia
02. Alienation
03. The Dark One
04. Temple Of Desire
05. Buried Memories
06. S' Druge Strane Svjetla
07. The Lightbringer
08. Dark Saga [Iced Earth cover]
09. Na Krilima Noci

Serbian Metal at its best

Interfector is the first band I heard from Republika Srpska, for those a little rusty in geopolitics, the Republika Srpska is one of the two political entities that compose the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the other entity is the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina) and is primarily inhabited by Serbs.

You might know that I'm a sucker for Metal bands from non "mainstream" countries (fuck, I live in one!). Anyway, what could you expect from this band? I don't really know, but this surely is a lot more than I expected! The array of influences that Interfector uses in their compositions is quite amazing.

The base of their sound is Black Metal, yeah, blast beats and shrieks, but in addition they put a lot of ingredients in the cauldron, like Folk, Thrash, Death and Gothic Metal.
Let's take for example opener track "Mother Serbia" clearly a nationalist song, when I first heard this song I thought this was a Folk-Black band, because this song really reminded me of Melechesh, but then, second song "Alienation" proved me wrong, because this song has a raw Black Metal sound,

The brew keeps mixing as I listen the rest of the Cd, songs are varied and we listen some other influences like Gothic Metal In "S Druge Strane Svjetla" , song with nice keyboards and female choirs. The album also covers an Iced Earth classic, "Dark Saga" is done tastefully and quite faithful to the original (except for the vocals of course).

The production and the presentation is quite good, the albums sounds crisp and tight while the cover art design and booklet inlay looks awesome. Definitively this guys took the effort of giving us a quality product, so is more than reasonable than we took time to sit down and listen to it. I strongly recommend everyone doing the same.