They keep up the speed for “Live and Burn”. They lash out with the chemical warfare of their riffs. I can hear a little Venom in the vocals, but right from the first falsetto scream it’s showing you no mercy. It’s clear that early Slayer is engraved in this band’s DNA. This is both a blessing and a curse as it does push their brand of black metal into new places. This album is much more progressive than the first. When the vocals come back in to help build things to more of a boiling point, the guitar gets weirder and then they continue to ebb back and forth like a breeze between roaring thunder storms. These songs are looser jams than what they gave us on the first album. Around the two-minute mark it begins to gain speed. There is a cleaner and more jangling guitar tone to the second song. In the last minute bellowing vocals come in after they have ridden a droning groove for the bulk of the opening song. The atmospheric black metal duo from Portugal that brought the masterful Absence of Void are back with a darker and denser offering this time around. So here are my top ten black metal album of 2016: These albums have dynamic layers and songwriting that inspired me to return to these songs throughout the year. I need more from black metal than just a collection of boring blast-beats recorded in a trash can. Veterans are being honored alongside new American bands who are taking risks to push their music into new places. The albums here have been gathered from every sub-genre. The genre flourishes in even the most obscure corners of the world as it becomes the sound of anger for the isolated souls of this doomed generation. The second, focused on death metal, is here.)īlack metal continues to spread its curse, having left its stain as an influence on everything from punk rock to doom. The first installment, which focused on doom, is here. ( Wil Cifer delivers the third of his year-end lists, and in this one he names his top 10 black metal albums of 2016.
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