Fornicus

01. Fornicus - Feast For Rats, 2015 CDr EP Limited Edition Numbered      Negative Earth Records - NE003 02. Fornicus - Storming Heaven, 2015 CDr Album Reissue      Independent - none 03. Fornicus - Hymns Of Dominion, 2016 CD Album      Dark Horizon Records - DHR034 04. Fornicus - Sulphuric Omnipotence, 2020 File FLAC Album x 9      Negative Earth Records - none As a vivid contrast to the previous celebration of doom, let us now indulge in the guilty pleasure of the totality of the black death. Fornicus is the deal. To just name three prongs in this voracious mouth, Impaled Nazarene, Dark Funeral and Archgoat frequently come to mind when blasting Fornicus (at 11, of course), who themselves are not Finnish nor Norwegian at all. The mysterious ways of the zeriverse. Of course, you shall find in the awesome Fornicus arsenal three dozen other influences and references from the great black metallurgy of the 90s. The essence of Fornicus is speed with catchy riffs and fabulous aggression.  It is all extremely well done - composition, execution and production, everything rocks. No real innovation, no new frontier explored, but 666% headbanging with passion and personality. Sometimes a purge with classic straight forward black metal is necessary when you're possessed by the twists and games of modern Polish black metal. All this blackness at once, oh yesssss! Black til zer! The density of the blackiverse within the zeriverse increases until nothing else matters! BLACK METAL MATTERS! Remove brackets and unzip: [sulfurizer] !ZER Fornicus ZER! Thanks everyone for the kind 12th anniversary comments here and on the Zerbook. You are the Church! Zer til death!