In our ongoing investigation of deceptive and outright fraudulent extreme metal acts, we pull the rug under a handful of established outfits that don’t even seem to bother hiding that they are after your money first, artistic integrity a distant second - an audience satisfaction not even registering. The more we pull away the blinds the more obvious these practices become. Maybe your favorite band is in here, maybe your life-long inspiration only cares about the dollars/euros you’re giving him/her? Don’t be fooled, there are plenty of honest, hard-working metal bands everywhere in the scene. It’s just that these money-hungry, artistically vacuum units make it difficult for everybody involved. These bands stopped caring, they lost the passion and fire. In short: they Sold Their Souls...
I had some material done already before the demise of Lord Belial. Some of the material was actually intended for the next Lord Belial album, but since we disbanded I changed around all of the ideas into new songs.
I don’t really consider it that much superior. But we KEPT the quality from 1st to 4th album, and that is something that is not easy to do! And I think there will come a 5th album that will kick just as much ass.
France, Germany and Hellas are regions with potent black metal scenes that can easily measure themselves with those of North, Central and East-Europe. Portugal and Spain have more of a presence when it comes to death metal and its related subgenres. Aboriorth is a one-man project that merges known Scandinavian elements with a delivery all his own. “The Austere Perpetuity Of Nothingness” combines the bass-heavy thickness of Setherial (“Lords Of the Nightrealm”) with the vocal depravity of pre-“Tetra Karcist” Enthroned and the murky dark atmosphere you’d associate with early Immortal, circa “Pure Holocaust”. The riffing is mostly atonal and cold while the bass guitar provides bottom end heaviness and the occasional interesting melody. The drumming is fairly simple in its assault and never goes out of its way to establish any sort of identity. What it is lacking in style and technique it complements with the competent if unremarkable delivery of its salvos. Compared to many of its peers Aboriorth doesn’t blast constantly and much of the gloomy atmosphere is derived from the prominent featuring midpaced to doomy dirge sections. It are these midpaced dirge sections that make Aboriorth sound potent and malevolent. Overall this is fairly typical for the genre, but sidesteps the usual trappings through interesting song structures, light use of melody and alternating fast and slow sections in an effective whole. Subtlety isn’t Aboriorth’s strong suit and what this record lacks in compositional finesse it makes up in sheer visceral impact. Scandinavian black metal fanatics can’t really go wrong with this.http://www.blackseedprod.comcomment itWouter 7
