81th part of short reviews.
SULPUR – Embracing Hatred and Beckoning Darkness
Year: 2021
Label: Amor Fati Productions
Rating: 7,8 / 10
Traditional Black Metal with a hard raw sound and solemn melody. A fairly typical release, as for Amor Fati: there is a clear Nordic nature of the music, and a certain similarity with ARCKANUM. Interestingly, the album along with the debut EP last year became one of the releases of the revived Hungry AK-47 Productions. Why not – it's very good and proper stuff.
TRANSILVANIA – Of Sleep and Death
Year: 2021
Label: Invictus Productions
Rating: 7 / 10
Pretty melodic black trash about the Middle Ages. As is most often the case in the zone of influence of the German music market, it's mostly recycled product, but the situation is saved by a good old-fashioned sound and a special malicious “Transylvanian” stench. Therefore, the album can give a lot of pleasure. But don't expect something of the level of KROLOK, CULTES DES GHOULES or MALOKARPATAN from it, this is much simpler music.
UNIVERSALLY ESTRANGED – Reared Up in Spectral Predation
Year: 2021
Label: Blood Harvest
Rating: 8,4 / 10
Brutal "sci-fi" metal from the States, or, as one of the listeners put it, paranormal. Indeed, this is fucking mind-blowing, a perverted musical mess, which at the same time is stunningly heavy and gloomy, almost like THE HAUNTING PRESENCE. The author managed to maintain a certain sense of succession, without slipping into cosmic chaos, so it's really interesting to listen to it. This is an album that deserves detailed analysis, first of all by the listener, not the reviewer.
FROSTNATT – Vinterens Kaldeste Natt
Year: 2021
Label: Der Schwarze Tod
Rating: no rating
A collection of the Yekaterinburg project containing two ” reinterpreted " mini-albums. Here it should be noted right away that FROSTNATT is an instrumental project, and I have never approved nor understood this approach. In my opinion, if you chose this path, then you should offer some incredible things that would suffer if you had vocals on the record. And if you play beautiful, emotional, but quite typical Russian atmospheric metal, then I don't see the point. There is no such depth and image here that would speak through the music, and the structures of the tracks seem to be asking for some vocal parts.
VOMIT – Deathlike Vomit
Year: 2021
Label: Deathrune Records
Rating: 7,2 / 10
Finally, in today's publication, a normal music about eternal human values - vomit, carrion and Horned One. Chileans- eternal hails to these full-metal people! - listened to POSSESSED (as well as toTERMINAL DEATH, they recorded a cover for a reason after all), came up with an absurd name and published this mini-album, on which, to demonstrate the breadth of thinking, they deviated towards Death Metal, not Black Metal. Therefore, for 15 minutes of frenzied shredding, there is about 4 minutes of heavy death metal stuff, a few chaotic “Florida-style” solos, and the vocals are quite characteristic. Well, what can I say here – Chile is Chile, and each such band from out there is worth ten TRANSILVANIAs, although the latter, of course, also tried very hard. But Chilean metal will always be harder.
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