Lyfthrasyr
The Engineered Flesh ()
Wydane przez Al!ve AGRok wydania Kraj GermanyNapisał Flemming Gabin6
Odin knows that the odds of finding good industrial black metal are as slim as me ending up in a three-way with Natalie Thomas and Carla Brown. Just saying. Despite the fucken fact that Mysticum did this already in 1996, the rest of the underground has been struggling to combine both genres in a workable whole ever since. Or you could just ask the fucken obvious question: What if Crionics was actually good? Yeah, bloody fucken unlikely, but at least the krauts of Lyfthrasyr prove that industrial black metal can be done right. I know. Industrial black metal should have been fucken better as a genre than it is. Oh, fuck you too. Dodheimsgard never pioneered anything, neither did the fucken overrated and entirely awful Ulver. Lay down that bong, your brain is fried. I can’t fucken believe that it has taken the genre so long to finally get this right. So here’s finally a fucken band that manages to combine industrial synths and martial beats with blasting death/black metal. Yeah, there’s fucken drummer Tomasz Janiszewksi too, of course, but he’s a fucken session member. Just saying. Not to say that this is terrible, far from it – it just isn’t very fucken remarkable either. It is solid, tho. It kinda does both fucken things at once, but can’t decide what it actually wants to fucken be. Which is fine with me, cos at least “The Engineered Flesh” is better than the average Demon Burger or Dino’s Cheese Factory record, cos this album sounds like both. Shut up. You know, fucken “Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia” but actually good. Yeah, fuck you too. This is average death/black metal with industrial bits and pieces, cos you can fucken take out these industrial segues and the songs would just be fucken mundane death/black metal. Which is a fucken problem right there. Both these genres exist next to each other, and aren’t integrated very well, or at fucken all at that. Which is kinda important if your PR sheet is screaming about “electronically infiltrated postmodern black metal” this and that. Not only is it a fucken mouthful, what exactly is supposed to fucken make this “postmodern”? It is fucken average high-speed death/black metal with standard verse-chorus song structures with the expected biomechanical/dystopian fucken artwork. That’s not being post-modern, that’s being fucken conformist. Geez. That isn’t to say I fucken hate this record. Fuck no. I actually enjoy for what it is. Do you know what I fucken hate? Hyperbole in fucken press sheets written by overpaid marketing tools. No usage of colorful language can fucken hide how fucken terrible most underground metal is. Lyfthrasyr isn’t terrible, just terribly ordinary. Which is okay, just don’t fucken expect me to pat you on the back for it. You wrote a good record, I’m impressed. Now go away.
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