Vorkreist - Sigil Whore Christ
Blackened blastbeat assaulters Vorkreist unleash their fourth slab of down and dirty Black Metal tinged with Death Metal in 'Sigil Whore Christ.' Riding on a whole new wave of blasphemy, this album is as satanic as it gets without being clichely perverse or reinventing the wheel. In fact, when considering the lyrics and titles, Vorkreist seem quite innovative and intelligent indeed with their creative titles, even if at the heart of the matter it is all boiled down to being just another version of satanic Metal propaganda. For new listeners, Vorkreist runs a tight ship full of fast paced blastbeats and bits of Darkthrone influenced rhythms such as on "Dominus Illuminatio Mea," but overall the musical assault is quite ferocious. The vocals are almost just as raw and distorted, but can be a bit hard to hear or understand, as if they're being played through a megaphone. Still, this shouldn't dampen most Black Metal fans' spirit as the entire atmosphere of the music is either 'rocking' or 'deliciously blasphemous.' It is almost as if someone merged Dark Funeral with Khold for a constrasting, yet twisted commiseration that one can't help but hate and love at the same time.
On the downside, like with most Black Metal albums that tend to focus on the raw, crushing side of the genre, much of the album can tend to sound the same from one point to another. While the band does go for innovation mostly on the vocals such as the rather mechnical snarl of "Per Aspera Ad Astra" to mix in with the rather fuzzed out demo tone of the growl that populates the other tracks, by the time the average Metal listeners gets from track one to track seven, they either really have to enjoy Black Metal or they will probably skip the rest. Oddly enough, once one gets to the last two tracks, things shift. "Ad Nauseam" plods along in almost a Doom Metal fashion, drastically slowing down the pace and bringing something new to the table to Vorkreist. The eight minute epic of "Scalae Gemoniae" is raw and crushing but in a mid pace way rather than fast and the pulsing drums during the bitterly distorted solo is fantastic and will remind listeners of recent Marduk. Overall, it takes some getting used to, but if one is able to brave the first half of this harsh offering, then Vorkreist will be another Black Metal group to take the cake at being innovatively blasphemous. Former fans, of course, already know what to expect and will certainly not be let down as 'Sigil Whore Christ' continues in the same raw fashion that was left off with 'Sickness Soverign" and merely capitalizes on it.
On the downside, like with most Black Metal albums that tend to focus on the raw, crushing side of the genre, much of the album can tend to sound the same from one point to another. While the band does go for innovation mostly on the vocals such as the rather mechnical snarl of "Per Aspera Ad Astra" to mix in with the rather fuzzed out demo tone of the growl that populates the other tracks, by the time the average Metal listeners gets from track one to track seven, they either really have to enjoy Black Metal or they will probably skip the rest. Oddly enough, once one gets to the last two tracks, things shift. "Ad Nauseam" plods along in almost a Doom Metal fashion, drastically slowing down the pace and bringing something new to the table to Vorkreist. The eight minute epic of "Scalae Gemoniae" is raw and crushing but in a mid pace way rather than fast and the pulsing drums during the bitterly distorted solo is fantastic and will remind listeners of recent Marduk. Overall, it takes some getting used to, but if one is able to brave the first half of this harsh offering, then Vorkreist will be another Black Metal group to take the cake at being innovatively blasphemous. Former fans, of course, already know what to expect and will certainly not be let down as 'Sigil Whore Christ' continues in the same raw fashion that was left off with 'Sickness Soverign" and merely capitalizes on it.
- De Imitatione Christi
- Maledicte
- Deus Vult
- Dominus Illuminatio Mea
- Memento Mori
- Ecce Homo
- Per Aspera Ad Astra
- Ad Nauseam
- Scalae Gemoniae
Label: http://www.agoniarecords.com
Reviewer: Colin McNamara
Jul 24, 2012
Jul 24, 2012
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Myrkvar - As En Bloed
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