Belmez (A one man band - Karsten Breitung ex of Eminenz with drum machine in tow) like to use the tag of dark metal to describe his brand of mayhem, a tag similar used by another German band namely Bethlehem. Dark metal is a suitable label as it couldn't really be considered black (One might be deceived by it's cover art) because many of the songs border on doom. Basically a sick atmosphere and gloom prevails over all elements to Belmez's music. It isn't all doom though as there are moments where Karsten loses it and goes into some mean-ass riffage and uses his native tongue to full extent (To quote Varg Vikernes: "German is the power speech!" after all). Is there any other language that sounds so pissed off and hateful? The artwork throughout the CD is excellent with a photo of probably the coolest looking skull I've ever seen. One last thing, there is a spoken word/horror segment on the disc that can be only simply described as fucking weird. A very cool CD, way better than previous effort Berserker.

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