99th part of the short reviews.
CYSTIC – Palace of Shadows
Year: 2023
Label: Chaos Records
Rating: 7,8 / 10
Very good Death Metal from the States. This is another "old school revival" and all, but it should be noted that the album has energy and a rather expressive specific style. In part, this style is based on vocals - high-pitched and venomous, not at all like the otherworldly growling from the dark caves that many other bands use. The music has excellent dynamics: transitions from long death-doomy segments to frenzied blast beats occur almost instantly. Even the songs themselves have a certain number of interesting and original moments. Give it a listen.
TETRAGRAMMACIDE – Typho-Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qur’an
Year: 2023
Label: Iron Bonehead Productions
Rating: 8,4 / 10
The new album by the cult esoteric Indian band was greeted by the audience with great enthusiasm, because, after all, it became cult for a reason. TETRAGRAMMACIDE is not the only band that mixes highly intellectual occult and religious themes with machine-gun chaotic metal of death and destruction. But I would say that they do it most naturally. The new album, compared to the previous one, has taken a major step towards technically intense Death Metal; the presence of the former HOUR OF PENANCE drummer is the best evidence of this. Its sound is also far from underground, and the bold experiments with noise are a thing of the past. But the album has retained the depth that most technical Death Metal bands have long lost. Its power is easy to understand from the first minutes, but to get into the whole idea, you need to listen to it at least 3-4 times.
GENOCIDAL RITES – Exsanguination of the Gods
Year: 2023
Label: Hells Headbangers Records
Rating: 7,7 / 10
A small EP from US guys who shit and cum in the name of the Goat. The musical component goes the way of BLACK WITCHERY (it turns out very decently), and the vocals driven into a deep ass remind of NOCTURNAL BLOOD or PROCLAMATION.
ÚLFARR / MALFEITOR – Úlfarr / Malfeitor
Year: 2023
Label: Purity Through Fire
Rating: 6 / 10
I've listened to the British band ÚLFARR before, and it was complete bullshit. This split is also bullshit, but it's not hopeless anymore. It's pretty raw dark metal in the style of far right pagan bands of the first half of the 2000s - with flat guitars, primitive keyboards and a lame drum machine. If you imagine that this is one of the acts affiliated with The Pagan Front, you can feel a certain nostalgia. MALFEITOR is a project of one of the members of ÚLFARR (who looks like a total retard) , so the music is similar in many ways, but more atmospheric and melodic. In general, this split is optional, and the people behind it are clearly not serious, but it does not cause disgust. It is listenable. And them boobs on the cover are very decent, it's an additional positive thing, because I just can't look at the ribs and acne of the 40-kilo gothic whores anymore. This design trick, of course, is cheap and low, but I won't turn up my nose.
BELIAL’S THRONE – Forgotten Land of the Lost Souls
Year: 2023
Label: Spread Evil Productions
Rating: 6,8 / 10
The debut album of the band which lives in Ireland, but consists of three Poles and one Croat. Therefore, the music here is not British at all, but northeastern, melodically tragic, something between Polish, Balkan and Finnish. Nothing outstanding, but sounds pleasant.
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