Blood Cult - We Are The Cult Of The Plains
Blood Cult have been sort of an underground black metal band from the U.S. Forming in 1994, the band has release numerous demos over the years, often heaping them together into compilations so they are more accessible to the public through different labels. In 2005 they released their first full length debut, and now five years later the second album has come to fruition under the esteemed Moribund Cult records, known for their promotion of black and death metal exclusively. For the past fifteen years Blood Cult has been apt at performing raw, gritty black metal, paying homage to the earlier 90s bands such as Darkthrone, but putting their own, rock n' roll vibe on it to make the music different from the others.
We Are The Cult Of The Plains lives up to whatever fans have heard so far in the career or Blood Cult. The music is grim and filthy with screeching vocals and plenty of dirty rock and roll riffs. Some tracks like "My Forest Home" and "We Never Came Back" feature spitfire vocals, extreme riffs, often melodic drumming, and a haunting atmosphere. These guys don't entirely live up to the whole black metal tirade of singing about Satan or wearing spikes and corpsepaint, but with songs such as "Devils Sabbath" and "Necromance" it's obvious they're attuned to the genre. However, most of their music doesn't even sound like the usual black metal that is put out these days; instead it is more heavy metal or hard rock with black metal vocals stacked on top of them. Songs like "Ludi Ceriales" offering a low tempo and rumbling bass with some melodic guitar work, which is hardly the trademark black metal sound save for the raw production. "Seeds" is a mid paced crunched with some great, fast solos with muddled drums. Most interesting of all is the country inspired black metal jig, "Illinoisan Altar," which is strange and unfit (vocally especially as it sounds like he's lost his wind), but works perfectly to the band's advantage of delivering something completely unexpected.
Blood Cult aren't the typical black metal band for fans, nor even on Moribund's lable. With raw, extreme acts like Sargeist to slower, more depressing acts like Necronoclast, Blood Cult falls somewhere in the middle with their newfound home. However, the music is good, and certainly blackened enough for any fan of black metal to enjoy. While it may be shunned for its 'peculiarities,' anyone who likes Glorior Belli or Darkthrone will find this a hit in their ear hole.
We Are The Cult Of The Plains lives up to whatever fans have heard so far in the career or Blood Cult. The music is grim and filthy with screeching vocals and plenty of dirty rock and roll riffs. Some tracks like "My Forest Home" and "We Never Came Back" feature spitfire vocals, extreme riffs, often melodic drumming, and a haunting atmosphere. These guys don't entirely live up to the whole black metal tirade of singing about Satan or wearing spikes and corpsepaint, but with songs such as "Devils Sabbath" and "Necromance" it's obvious they're attuned to the genre. However, most of their music doesn't even sound like the usual black metal that is put out these days; instead it is more heavy metal or hard rock with black metal vocals stacked on top of them. Songs like "Ludi Ceriales" offering a low tempo and rumbling bass with some melodic guitar work, which is hardly the trademark black metal sound save for the raw production. "Seeds" is a mid paced crunched with some great, fast solos with muddled drums. Most interesting of all is the country inspired black metal jig, "Illinoisan Altar," which is strange and unfit (vocally especially as it sounds like he's lost his wind), but works perfectly to the band's advantage of delivering something completely unexpected.
Blood Cult aren't the typical black metal band for fans, nor even on Moribund's lable. With raw, extreme acts like Sargeist to slower, more depressing acts like Necronoclast, Blood Cult falls somewhere in the middle with their newfound home. However, the music is good, and certainly blackened enough for any fan of black metal to enjoy. While it may be shunned for its 'peculiarities,' anyone who likes Glorior Belli or Darkthrone will find this a hit in their ear hole.
- My Forest Home
- Devils Sabbath
- Ludi Ceriales
- Cult Of The Plains
- Seeds
- Serpents
- Illinosian Altar
- We Never Came Back
- Never Said Goodbye
- Necromance
- Outro
Moribund Cult Records
Reviewer: Colin McNamara
May 24, 2010
May 24, 2010
Next review:
Better Undead Than Alive- Volume 2
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