…ist. Of course, being able to perform the songs in their entirety, especially live, and be able to add loops and the like and still have left a guitar at the bottom. So it feels absolutely great. At the same time it helps considerably when writing songs and trying out new ideas when you can benefit from the possibility of having two guitars to work with. Blistering.com: I’m sure you’re getting this a lot, but the new album at various points, is si…
…snow-covered mountainous glory – aren’t the only black metal band from the Ukraine worth fussing over. Obviously, Khors is the other and if their countrymen weren’t so imposing and majestic, they’d be the first name in Ukrainian black metal. And there’s no real signpost for Khors like Burzum is for Drudkh; rather Khors is their own secular entity and band that should be taken seriously thanks to the strength of their fourth full-length,Wisdom of C…
…ion” off 2005’s breakout Atavism. What makes most of this work so effectively is how decidedly simple most of the riffs and melodies are, yet they’re performed with such a degree of earnest, that it’s one of those albums that gets embedded in one’s head…and is in no hurry to leave. When stacking this up next to the band’s prior releases (which includes the time when they were “The Lord Weird Slough Feg”), The Animal Spirits ends up somewhere in th…
…onic come across like a mix between Abigail Williams and Devildriver. Vocally Freddy Lim has a good voice and, like the rest of the music, keeps it steadily in the mid-range, so the Dani Filth glass shattering squeals are kept to a minimum, which is quite nice. The likes of “Hearts Condemned,” “Rise Of The Shadows” and “Venom In My Veins” are feisty tracks with a lot of oomph and melodic bloody rose thorns acting as hooks. That nice sense of melod…
…ters , thus resisting the temptation to speed things up, which would probably soil this well-plotted land of Gothic BM gravestones. Across the board, Mysticism gets high praise here, as it’s the type of release that ultimately props up black metal and keeps the subgenre fresh and varied. However, don’t mistake this as your dyed-in-the-wool Cradle of Filth “Goth” BM outing – this is darkness, a dish best served cold, Ukrainian-style. www.myspace.co…
