Blasphemy
Gods of War
[Osmose]
Blasphemy, being one of the most influential extreme metal bands of all
time, died off a while back. I've heard various comments about the
present actions of the band, everything from members pushing drugs,
being addicted to drugs, or just wasting their lives away. Sad really.
But it's the legacy they left which is obviously the most important.
Blasphemy basically were given credit with starting the Black/Grind era,
later raised to much more popular levels with the likes of (one time
clones)Beherit. Blasphemy created the "brutal" Canadian sound, showing
up even today with minor influence in such bands as Sacramentary
Abolishment and Conqueror (mostly in terms of brutality though). The
band also brought extreme metal to violent new heights, outdoing the
likes of Morbid Angel in speed, using sloppy melody structures to appear
as violent as possible, using an ultra-Satanic image, and possessing
some of the most sickening and gory black/death vocals. They were at the
center of the up and coming (non-Euro) extreme metal scene at the time,
a scene that had yet to become over saturated with goths and wimps. This
was ultra violent and Satanic metal!
"Gods of War" is in my mind one of the sickest, violent, and most ungodly punishing CDs of all time. It took the bridge traveled between grindcore and black metal as displayed on "Fallen Angel of Doom", and pushed this into much darker realms (although less black than the demo). More atmospheric solos, punishing drum sections, and catchy guitar riffs made this a vast improvement over the first album. The first LP is still amazing, of course, but everything about "Gods of War" was much more interesting, and had the ability to hold my interest for much longer. The angst driven vocals of Black Winds naturally top everything off. This is DEATH metal (not in relation to the genre), and fantastic because of that.
If you have yet to hear Blasphemy, then I suggest an attempt at tracking down some of their releases. If you can appreciate brutality, from a death or black metal standpoint, then they will not disappoint. There's nothing quite like sitting back and popping this disc in, since it brings to mind images of hatred and brutality. A time when ideals like this were accepted, black metal was played for human reasons, instead of monetary related ones, and loser goths and pacifists weren't involved in making extreme metal. All hail Blasphemy!
© 1997 brand
"Gods of War" is in my mind one of the sickest, violent, and most ungodly punishing CDs of all time. It took the bridge traveled between grindcore and black metal as displayed on "Fallen Angel of Doom", and pushed this into much darker realms (although less black than the demo). More atmospheric solos, punishing drum sections, and catchy guitar riffs made this a vast improvement over the first album. The first LP is still amazing, of course, but everything about "Gods of War" was much more interesting, and had the ability to hold my interest for much longer. The angst driven vocals of Black Winds naturally top everything off. This is DEATH metal (not in relation to the genre), and fantastic because of that.
If you have yet to hear Blasphemy, then I suggest an attempt at tracking down some of their releases. If you can appreciate brutality, from a death or black metal standpoint, then they will not disappoint. There's nothing quite like sitting back and popping this disc in, since it brings to mind images of hatred and brutality. A time when ideals like this were accepted, black metal was played for human reasons, instead of monetary related ones, and loser goths and pacifists weren't involved in making extreme metal. All hail Blasphemy!
© 1997 brand