Beherit / Archgoat
Messe Des Morts / Angelcunt
[Necropolis]
What inspired Necrapolis to revert to their underground maven ways and
release this most awe-inspiring work of black/grind genius is beyond me, but
seriously now, you won’t find me complaining. The fact is that I had no personal
knowledge of this recording, and if there is one thing to thank Necrapolis for
other than The Black’s *amazing* Priest of Satan and the Arckanum records, it
has to be this most brilliant of black/noise operations.
Beherit, as usual, are decadent in their extraordinarily filthy black noise and don’t deserve much more description than this (if you don’t already have The Oath Of Black Blood and Drawing Down The Moon you deserve a fate worse than death!), except for the fact that they sound a little more experimental, and yet a little less incoherent than usual. In short, this is a Beherit that is just as noisy as they’ve been known for, but strangely a little more controlled than we’ve come to expect. Some of this material hints towards the noisy ritualistic organic techno path that they would adopt afterwards, and displays a slightly more streamlined vignette of the originators of pure audial evil.
Archgoat are supposedly fellow Finns, and theirs has been a truly elusive legacy. I haven’t the slightest clue about what other material they’ve released other than this spurt of violence, and I must take the opportunity to say that I’d pay top dollar for any other material any of you have, because this side of the split is truly, utterly unbelievable. Although I hesitate to call this black metal, it shares a lot more common traits with olden death metal than anything remotely black metal, due to the rhythms employed, the downtuned riffage and the guttural vocal approach, even the simple term ‘death metal’ goes nowhere in describing how filthy and unrepentant Archgoat can make their metal sound.
Bathed in the most horrid of production jobs and possessing the sickest vocals since General Surgery and Impetigo, Archgoat make use of the best elements of Altars Of Madness/Abominations Of Desolation, Scream Bloody Gore and INRI and filter it through some Beherit-esque blackened grind to come up with some truly inspired, gritty music that you can headbang to incessantly, yet all the time peddling nothing but the rawest of Satanic noise. Wow. Refer to the track Rise Of The Black Moon for an example in amazing, pounding molten death metal riffage. If there was a modern day predecessor I could compare this to, there are major similarities to be seen in Mexico’s SARGATANAS.
25:36 of pure hateful spew, this is unrepentant, malicious and rabid. If you’re even the slightest fond of Beherit (and if you’re not, you really shouldn’t be into extreme metal in the first place) you should pick this split up, and give yourself the pleasure of discovering the amazing Archgoat in the process. A must.
[a fucking 10!]
© 2000 equimanthorn
Beherit, as usual, are decadent in their extraordinarily filthy black noise and don’t deserve much more description than this (if you don’t already have The Oath Of Black Blood and Drawing Down The Moon you deserve a fate worse than death!), except for the fact that they sound a little more experimental, and yet a little less incoherent than usual. In short, this is a Beherit that is just as noisy as they’ve been known for, but strangely a little more controlled than we’ve come to expect. Some of this material hints towards the noisy ritualistic organic techno path that they would adopt afterwards, and displays a slightly more streamlined vignette of the originators of pure audial evil.
Archgoat are supposedly fellow Finns, and theirs has been a truly elusive legacy. I haven’t the slightest clue about what other material they’ve released other than this spurt of violence, and I must take the opportunity to say that I’d pay top dollar for any other material any of you have, because this side of the split is truly, utterly unbelievable. Although I hesitate to call this black metal, it shares a lot more common traits with olden death metal than anything remotely black metal, due to the rhythms employed, the downtuned riffage and the guttural vocal approach, even the simple term ‘death metal’ goes nowhere in describing how filthy and unrepentant Archgoat can make their metal sound.
Bathed in the most horrid of production jobs and possessing the sickest vocals since General Surgery and Impetigo, Archgoat make use of the best elements of Altars Of Madness/Abominations Of Desolation, Scream Bloody Gore and INRI and filter it through some Beherit-esque blackened grind to come up with some truly inspired, gritty music that you can headbang to incessantly, yet all the time peddling nothing but the rawest of Satanic noise. Wow. Refer to the track Rise Of The Black Moon for an example in amazing, pounding molten death metal riffage. If there was a modern day predecessor I could compare this to, there are major similarities to be seen in Mexico’s SARGATANAS.
25:36 of pure hateful spew, this is unrepentant, malicious and rabid. If you’re even the slightest fond of Beherit (and if you’re not, you really shouldn’t be into extreme metal in the first place) you should pick this split up, and give yourself the pleasure of discovering the amazing Archgoat in the process. A must.
[a fucking 10!]
© 2000 equimanthorn