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Let's continue the Lord's fixation with Grimm Black Metal, shall we? That's Southern Lord, of course, who have licensed yet another killer slab of the darkest, bleakest, primitive Black Metal, this time from Sweden's Carnal Records. Craft's third and final record, coyly named Fuck the Universe perhaps as a last act of defiance, is an entirely listenable album of no frills, back to basics Black Metal that makes Satyricon's Volcano seem like Top 40 material by comparison. That said, Craft has utilized a Rock'n'Roll aesthetic on their swansong that fans of latter era Satyricon should find appealing. Here, though, that R'n'R foundation has been performed by a full 4-piece band and as a result the sound is much thicker and denser than the work of Satyr and Frost, no doubt like the mixture of smoke and fog emanating from a viking funeral pyre. This album is easily consumed as a whole, is uniformly high in quality, and no individual songs really stand out, save the instrumental "Destroy All." Otherwise, all are excellent, particularly the brooding, lengthy closing track, "Principium Anguis." Probably underappreciated during their accursed existence, Craft's final release is a monument to darkness. Kudos once again to Southern Lord for unleashing a primal artifact of Black Metal.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Earth A Raging Blaze |
| 2. Thorns In The Planet's Side |
| 3. Fuck The Universe |
| 4. Assassin 333 |
| 5. Demonspeed |
| 6. Terni Exustæ: Queen Reaper |
| 7. Xenophobia |
| 8. The Suffering Of Others |
| 9. Destroy All |
| 10. According To Him |
| 11. Principium Anguis |
: 51.13
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