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Demonic Halocaust: The legions of the black ice fires
14/02/08 || Global Domination
This album I received from Demonic Halocaust is a compilation of their EPs, so there are quite a lot of songs here. When I got a friend request from them on MySpace, and checked out their tunes, I found that they were a damn fine and original black metal band. What I got was a ton of insanely ballistic black metal anthems.
The overall sound is very raw, solid and drum-ecstatic. The blastbeats are at such a ludicrously high pace that there are blastbeats of them. Yep, blastbeats of blastbeats. That’s pretty deadly. The riffs are very well played and they paint a spiral of melancholy and sorrow. The sound is very dirty and raw in a good way and the songs are written and composed with feeling. The effective use of swirling, eroded guitar tunes is always welcome in the skull-raping abyss inside my head. As well as the heaviness and brutality, this album is very hypnotic.
There’s so much chaos that it’s hard to see straight with this music, and that all adds to my enjoyment of this album. Chaos isn’t the only ingredient in this dismal abyss. There are also some melodic and mellowish tunes. Chaos would be too much for most people to endure from an entire album, but I’m sure the authors of this apocalyptic hellhole of music don’t care, haha. The songs are mostly pretty long, which is fine because the Halocaust have a lot to offer. Their impressive musicianship and the mix between inhuman chaos and calm, sorrowful melodies is nothing to be passed up. As I said earlier, the feeling is totally undeniable.
The vocals aren’t your everyday black metal shrieks. They are black metal vocals without any doubt, and they’re some of the most vicious screams and growls I’ve ever heard. I’d say this guy is about as vicious as Pest (one of Gorgoroth’s former vocalists) was. Not to mention the atmosphere, sound and aggression of the music in general is like Gorgoroth’s “Destroyer” on black metal Viagra.
Demonic Halocaust deserves as much attention as a free hooker covered in honey, flies and carved out vaginas. They are infinitely more vicious than most black metal bands I know of.
8 raped halos out of 10.
- Information
- Released: 2007
- Label: None
- Website: Demonic Halocaust MySpace
- Band
- Damien Necromencer: guitar, bass and vocals
- Eric: drums
- Criss: guitar
- Tracklist
- 01. Where The Light Ends
- 02. Imbolic Possession
- 03. Left Below
- 04. To Become Is To Die
- 05. The Fading Light
- 06. Shadow Warriors
- 07. The Fortress
- 08. Hordes Of War
- 09. One Of Us
- 10. Unholy War (part 1)
- 11. Eclipsiar
- 12. Existence Erased
- 13. Legions Of The Black Ice Fires
- 14. Reanimating The Shadows
- 15. Trappezorium
- 16. Seal Of Fire
- 17. The Black Maze
- 18. The Lantern
- 19. Blood Of Malice