Friday, January 15, 2010

Gehenna








black seared heart (demo), 1993
first spell, 1994
seeing through the veil of darkness (second spell), 1995
malice (third spell), 1996
adimiron black, 1998
murder, 2000
ww, 2005
I think the balance between straight-edge hardcore and its moral contrary black metal is a bit in favor of the SxEx on this blog, so here is a fat dose of evil black metal! Corpse paints, pentagrams and a full-throttling Bathory revisitation! This is first class stuff at the level of Satyricon. Despite the exagerated keyboards, "malice" is my favorite for the doctorate it earns in the science of infinite groove (ad arma ad arma!!!), or maybe the very violent "ww", I have to run another comp test. "murder" and "adimiron" reek of dry death, death and more death (no keyboard!), the first 2 spells are classic 90s blackness, while "ww" returns to straightforward non-stop blacker bathoriesque sledgehammering blast beat mania: this record has quasi hypnotic qualities, fuck yeah. Forests, castles, orgies, satan!
CD rip.

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4 comments:

  1. Nice one, my fave of these would be First Spell-love those organs ;-). Did you check out the latest Nazxul?

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  2. Nazxul are still / again around ??? (I know the Australian Nazxul from the 90s)

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  3. Yes, the same. Still around and last year's album ('Iconoclast') was one of 2009's BM highlights IMHO.

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  4. Well then I have no choice. I'll get this one!

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