Inquisition have uploaded a new song, “Wings of Anu”, to Youtube from their upcoming album coming out in August on Season of Mist. Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar Beyond The Celestial Zenith‘s cover even features the Riot mascot!
Season of Shit bring more generic, blasting phoned-in war metal in style of Marduk: Generic and interchangeable the same as the previous Inquisition record. “Wings of Anu” sounds like a rejected Diocletian song. Remember Inquisition are signed to the label who thought nu-Gorguts and Morbid Angel‘s Illud Divinum Insanus were commendable efforts.
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This is excellent news. I’ve been waiting for a follow up to Inquisitions last album – Vaguely Spiritual Sounding Overwrought Album Title.
They do seem to believe that more words = dark and ominous.
Pretty boring.
No no no. Inquisition have nothing in common with “war metal” or Diocletian or whomever. Maybe they do have daft abum titles, maybe they have outstayed their welcome, maybe it’s not OK for a black metal band to be on one of these cruise ship affairs, but their debut album is great: imaginative riffing and constantly interesting guitar work, song-oriented writing, and an approach to atmosphere and vocals which was unusual and which I believe worked really well. Satyr’s (Satyricon) croaking sounds like a shallow imitation.
Inquisition is one of those bands that’s definitely had some cool and interesting moments. The cumulative total of those moments doesn’t add up to amazing work, though. Tolerable overall but not something that sees regular rotation in my house.
This new song just sounds fucking lazy. Devoid of energy and any really distinctive features that separate it from the pack. I’ll probably still listen to the album whenever it comes out but only because I’ve been making more of an effort over the last year or so to keep up with what’s going on in metal than any sort of anticipation.
Sterile shit drum machine sound, ready for the suburban practicioner of occult arts, via smartphone. No surprise, a passing boredom in a stream of many, black metal bores itself to sleep then dies quietly.
They forgot the ‘s’ in ‘Wings of Anu[s]’.
Fucking Fernandes Sustainer guitar doofuses.
: your tone sounds like Nintendo 8bit.
Pretty generic indeed. This band seems to enjoy “Battles in the North” so much that all of their albums are uninspired imitations of that style. They’re quite cool to catch live, though.