Selbstmord
Some Day the Whole World...
[Old Legend]


If a grotesquely sick and bloodthirsty rabid wolf were to create a black metal album, it might sound something like what Selbstmord have produced here. Many of you are probably groaning already at the thought of another Polish NS band given how saturated that scene has become, but rest assured that this hardly sounds at all like the country's conventional and emaciated thin sound; one solitary guitar absolutely crunches through this recording with a torrential force that gave me the urge upon first listen to go axe up some chickens. The vocals are mostly an insane detestable croaking rasp that seem to reverberate throughout the poisonous "hissing" atmosphere twisted into effect by pulsating bass movements, and the drumming is chaotic, with a very vivid and spirited thick hammering quality (way too many bands are programming machines these days). Unfortunately this is only thirty minutes long but it's completely ripping and heavy throughout with thoughtful energy and much of the epic motion that has almost completely dwindled out of black metal nowadays.

Selbstmord are made up of Diathyrron from Fullmoon (I was expecting this to sound more like United Aryan Evil, which it doesn't at all) on drums, Necro from Ohtar on vocals, and Belial SS of Moontower standing in as a session bassist, and the music here is actually over two years old, so it seems to be more of a showcase of what we can expect from these guys in the near future than anything else. "The Funeral of the Forgotten World" and "The Curse" particularly blew me away and I really can't get over how good this album is. Imagine a much colder version of Thousand Swords with a primitive War Funeral March type structure and you can get a pretty good impression of what to expect here, although everything is conveyed much faster and the heroic moments seem more intertwined into the speed than following the typical break-off course.

This completely destroys. Buy it now!


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