Demilich
20th Adversary Of Emptiness (compil. CD)
Wydane przez Svart RecordsRok wydania 2014Kraj FinlandNapisał Flemming Gabin8
Holy fucken shit, dudes. This is the best thing to come from Finland, the land of Armi Päivinen, since Seremonia. And the best part is... it was released about two fucken decades ago! For the two of you that actually know Demilich was the best Finnish death metal band that far too few people actually know about. “Nespithe”, released in 1993, is the only Finnish death metal album you’ll ever need. I don’t care what you assholes say, those bass lines are unmatched even by today’s most technically gifted bands, the super low sewer grunt can actually be understood and the lyrics... Holy fuck, the lyrics, dudes. This band was probably the earliest European band talking about interdimensional travel, space horror and internal beings – a rough three years after Nocturnus. And the insanely long song titles are just amazing. If there’s one essential death metal album that’s actually, you know, essential – this one is it. So what the fuck is the “20th Adversary Of Emptiness”? It’s a two-disc compilation. The first disc contains a high fidelity restoration/remaster for the band’s only album “Nespithe”, and disc two compiles all of the band’s early demos and various studio sessions in chronological order. Demilich independently released three fucken demo tapes before being contracted by Necropolis Records. It’s good hearing all these songs in their original form. Sure, Demilich didn’t play exactly fast, but for fuck’s sake, these ugly Finnish men were heavier than anybody else at the time. Seriously, who needs any modern bands when you can listen to this all day long? Odin knows that a lot of stupid occult rock has been coming out of Scandinavia lately, so it is a fucken joy to see Svart Records, the house that Noora Federley built, try its hand at this. If you are fucken serious about liking death metal, there is no fucken excuse to not pick this record up. This fucken two-disc compilation of Demilich was long fucken overdue, dudes. The only thing that can further brighten my day now is the always ridiculously cute Armi Paivinen dancing around in her skimpy underwear, but the chance of that happening is as slim as finding good bands on Sumerian Records. So yeah, “20th Adversary Of Emptiness” is a record you need to own in physical form. This is essential death metal history, and if you don’t know this fucken band you are probably a stupid kid or a hipster.
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