Cvinger
Monastery Of Fallen ()
Wydane przez Metal Music Detector PromotionsRok wydania Kraj SloveniaNapisał Flemming Gabin7
Hey, this actually isn’t too fucken shabby for once. Cvinger. A black metal band from Slovenia that sounds just like Sabathan-era Enthroned and Legion-era Marduk. It is featuring former Bleeding Fist drummer Alex Destradi no less. Holy fucken shit. Normally that sort of stuff makes me all kinds of angry, but this shit simply rocks. Odin knows good black metal is hard to come by. By Ruby Jones’ tits, this sounds just like “Prophecies Of Pagan Fire” and “Opus Nocturne” with the kind of slightly growled rasp you expect of early Enslaved. The production is completely fucken necro, and that is just how this sort of stuff is supposed to sound. The guitar tone is fucken crunchy tho, and those drums… Holy fuck, they remind me of “Schizophrenia” Sepultura. You know, the only fucken thing that is missing is some chaotic solo’ing. Nothing fancy, just random noise cos these songs are hard to fucken tell apart. There are three atmospheric interludes that really don’t fucken add anything. One of them has an acoustic guitar bit. If that is supposed to imitate John Zwetsloot’s fragile acoustic guitar pieces on the classic two Dissection albums from way back fucken when, then you fucken need to try harder already. Holy shit, you can even hear the bass guitar. I don’t know whether I should call this black metal, death metal or thrash metal, cos it has elements of all three. Who the fuck cares about classification any way?! I don’t know what I like more. The fact that this sounds like a fucken Scandinavian black metal album from the early 90s, or the fact that it ticks every box imaginable, and just runs with it… hard. I should fucken hate this on account that it sounds really derivative and generic, but I just fucken can’t. You see, asshat, Cvinger possess gusto, hunger and a fire that a lot of other fucken painted clowns don’t. We all know black metal is a fucken joke at this point (death metal is no better), so we need fucken bands like Cvinger. They stay traditional but mix things up just enough to remind us why we are fucken here in the first place. Like that Autopsy break in the closing section of the title track. Fucken grand, fucken dark and fucken oppressive sounding. Holy shit. Black metal done right, it still exists. Who fucken knew? Yeah, the monk chants and choirs are completely fucken goofy, but I suppose that is what black metal purists demand these days. Sign me up for more of this shit. This shit I can tolerate.
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