Blasphemy - Fallen Angel of Doom

Production: Poor and beyond but fitting enough to the music; the distortion on drums and guitars peaks a washout during heavy vocal intrusion, but otherwise a mediocre bass-intense production job from a rancid garage is what to expect.

Review: Majestic primal structures colliding create the aura of Blasphemy's music: a soaring, battling, violent spectre of vengeance which would be entirely discountable as too unbelievable if not for its scary lucidity. Riffs are built as phrases here, and the resulting musical advantages let the band make ludicrously simple songs from the basic duality of much of their melodic/harmonic design.

Underneath a metallic and dissipated bass rumble the slamming frequency of riffs come together in linear structures dropped into structural rhythms for integration into a song of different textures conspiring on a theme. Grindcore of the Carcass vein provides the ancestry to these riffs although other black metal and hardcore can be heard clearly in their process.

Tracklist:

1. Winds of the Black Gods
2. Fallen Angel of Doom
3. Hoarding of Evil Vengeance Heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, doom metal, grindcore or thrash mp3 sample
4. Darkness Prevails
5. Desecration Heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, doom metal, grindcore or thrash mp3 sample
6. Ritual Heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, doom metal, grindcore or thrash mp3 sample
7. Weltering In Blood
8. Demoniac
9. Goddess of Perversity
10. The Desolate One
11. Outro

Length: 30:13

Blasphemy - Fallen Angel of Doom: Black Metal 1990 Blasphemy

Copyright © 1990 Wild Rags

The intensity of this music comes in the ability of each riff to hold tension through its progress and then work only conclusions in brutal slamming finality, often leaving the tension as an ongoing theme from the opening blast beat to the fading polyrhythmic chaotic rumble of the last guitar track...pieces of simplicity working together coherently as if almost self-assembled by organic process.

Echoing concrete vocals goad the music with violent and incoherent interjections that give explosivity to running beats and otherwise pause and distort sequences of lesser tempo. Pure savagery in performance art makes these as powerful as they are but their seemingly afterthought distribution over rhythm guitar makes them terrifying, dissonant, and incomprehensible in origin. This complements the overall atmosphere of darkness and entropy that flavors this release with power, and gives to its simple patterns a platform to express their nihilistic discompleteness.