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Many would cringe after listening to this Mutiilation’s new CD. Rather, it was really a one intense recording but could somehow vary the opinions that it might gather. First off, cringe! For a reason that it is not a candy coated stuff and it is really too repellent among the cluster of morons that always think: Metal should have a cleaner sound. Second, there might be some of you who will agree, that this is the band’s finest effort. Third, some wouldn’t and is hesitant to disagree. Finest: in a sense of a very strong production that Mutiilation ever had. Incredible are the bass lines – sounds like a dried dead wood of thousand years old hammered to your skull and smashing it to bits. Yes. Emphasis on bass guitar is very noticeable here and there. And since that we can hardly hear the presence of this instrument on the previous Mutiilation CDs – this one might came out as a deadly gift that any of the cult followers should cherished. Guitars are the usual Mutiilation ‘tone’ that infesting the Underground for so many years now and of course, left and right speakers were seriously doing their hideous malpractice. The use of Drum Machine is really not a drawback on this recording, and should I tell you that the snare sound is TOO clean??? Of course! Now, if you ask me, I say that I missed some of the haunting (and twisted) guitar plucking on “Black Millennium” – it is literally absent in this new album. There is a strong recommendation, however, on tracks like “Tormenting My Nights”; very heavy and in fact the most incredible song this CD has to offer! Next to recommend and is really worth killing anything in sight (either yourself or someone else) would be “Destroy Your Life for Satan”. This song starts like any of the grooviest thing happening around in Burzum’s ‘Aske’ and lately, ends up with a very loud chant with a merging low tom commanding you to destroy your life for HIM – now! On the other hand, there is a point that I can came up that the entire album stops on these 2 incredible songs. Other tracks could be great, but somehow you should fuse yourself inside of it for over an hour and need to understand them all one by one. Yes… all these following tracks should be understood deeply as they were not (should I say) as good or as catchy as the first 2 tracks being mentioned (in which the band failed to maintain such an intensity, anyway!). I won’t claim that any of the next tracks were just mere fillers because the atmosphere is still present on these songs. Above all, this is absolute Black Metal from a French Black Metal pioneer. Among his other albums, “Black Millennium” should not be forgotten and you should add this one. Negativity: The outro is so useless. Sounds like a malfunctioned air conditioner brought up in the middle of the woods and you’re out there alone listening to it at 2 a.m. Very eerie, my friend…
| Tracklist |
| 1. Introducing The Plague |
| 2. Tormenting My Nights |
| 3. Destroy Your Life For Satan |
| 4. Bitterness Bloodred |
| 5. Majestas Leprosus |
| 6. Beyond The Decay Of Time And Flies |
| 7. The Ugliness Inside |
| 8. If Those Walls Could Speak |
| 9. Words Of Evil |
: 45.28
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