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Black Flame: Torment and glory
03/12/07 || Global Domination
This review was written by ex-staffer/cocksmoker Desolator.
How many of you have been bold enough to look deeper into a band’s back catalog, having been courted, sexed and impregnated by its latest offering? I have, many times. In many cases I have opened up a softer spot for a band’s older releases and Black Flame is no exception. “Conquering Purity” is fucken awesome and I wanna court “Imperivm” whenever I can, but I’ve found “Torment and Glory” even more excellent in its own filthy way.
How does it compare to “Conquering Purity”? Let’s use a monkey analogy for this comparison. I like monkeys and you should too. We were them once, after all. “Conquering Purity” is like a healthy blackened gorilla with bulging muscles and fists like wrecking balls. “Torment and Glory” is like a filthy, hairy monkey with rabies.
“Conquering Purity” rocks my socks in a very devastating manner, but “Torment and Glory” is a very vicious beast that has infected me, transmitting an awesome disease into my head. A wonderful strain of the old school metal disease that has garnered my attention and taken command of my listening skills as though they are its play thing.
This album is the raw spectrum of the Flame. This is raw, but not what I’d call uncooked. This audial piece of fire has the groove, sound and darkness I love about Black Flame. This album is old school black metal to the bone. But it’s not one of those clichéd neo-old school black metal bands that try so hard to rip off other bands (and fail miserably at it). These guys prefer to do things their way. And it works.
This album effectively conveys a sinister sound. The music embodies a fiendish yet soothing sense of cruelty, and the vicious, snarling vocals add to this wonderful feeling of malice. This album’s tones are constantly burdened with grief and despair and are more than eager to share such feelings with you. “Wounded Torment” and “My World… My Purgatory” are prime examples of tracks that attack you with a nice sense of sorrow, especially with the clear singing at the end of the latter track, which does well to finish the malicious infliction that is “Torment and Glory”.
“O:B:F” is a weird track that consists of surreal guitar and bass strummings. This track is definitely different from the rest. It gives me many interesting mental images – one consisting of a spider dangling before me, teasing me and waving shrunken skulls in front of my face. this is the kind of spider that will never go away, and I can’t say I’d want it to. All of these tracks are ace and I fail to find any that I’d throw away. Each track has its own offering of burning and brooding qualities that I love.
8.5 diseased and loveable burning chimps out of 10.
- Information
- Released: 2004
- Label: Eerie Art Records
- Website: www.black-flame.net
- Band
- Cardinale Italo: vocals, guitars
- Serpentrax: bass
- M:A Fog: drums
- Tracklist
- 01. In Nomine Gloriae
- 02. Winds Ov Flagellation
- 03. Burn With Me!
- 04. From Ashes I’ll Reborn
- 05. Orgiastic Funeral
- 06. Wounded Torment
- 07. O:B:F
- 08. ... The Other Face Ov Hell
- 09. My World… My Purgatory