Demoncy - Joined in Darkness

Production: Layers of distortion create fullness and strength of tone.

Review: Demoncy layer mirrored modalities in oppositional structure to form tone and rhythm into a distinctive riff shapes, creating an architecture of patterns which sculpts a spatial dynamic in which phrases rush at the listener with a sense of foreboding detachment and sinister purpose. This poetry of interlocking phrases creates a matrix of possibilities converge upon a singular mood of emptiness and suspension of belief through its nihilistic narrative much like that of the first albums from Incantation and Havohej.

Guitar instrumentation is precise, with no solo work, using precisvely carved counterpoint patterns to create a sense of the inexorable. Rising and roaring, limblike riffs engage in combat through this motif-driven and through-composed column of sound. The harsh whisper dry throat vocals that carry these songs in rhythm and timbre reverberate behind a churning tempo of unobtrusively backgrounded digital drums. As a loud recording with plenty of variation in its dynamic output, Joined in Darkness moves like an organic progression of growth in decay and carefully orchestrates its atmosphere for a consistent conceptual descent into dark moods.

Tracklist:

1. Hymn to the Ancients (1:21)
2. Impure Blessings (Dark Angel of the Four Wings) (3:58)
3. Demoncy (3:29)
4. Joined in Darkness (5:02) Heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, doom metal, grindcore or thrash mp3 sample
5. Winter Bliss (4:16) Heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, doom metal, grindcore or thrash mp3 sample
6. Hypocrisy of the Accursed Heavens (3:15)
7. Spawn of the Ancient Summoning (4:03)
8. Hidden Path to the Forest Beyond (2:24) Heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, doom metal, grindcore or thrash mp3 sample
9. (Angel of Dark Shadows) Goddess of the Dark (4:22)
10. The Dawn of Eternal Damnation (4:23)
11. Embraced by the Shadows (:21)

Length: 36:56

Demoncy - Joined in Darkness: Black Metal 1999 Demoncy

Copyright © 1999 Baphomet

As racing tremelo is used an ambience of resonant sound is created but is here purely manipulated in the evolution of riffs as a skeletal outline of structure, eschewing the harmony and melody that might obstruct its singular purpose. Immersive in texture and loudness, the conflict of discovering order in obscurity that drives these songs creates a vast spectre which emerges in order to destroy and vanish in its own ashes, with the lingering reminder of its arbitrary but inevitable return.