IXXI – Assorted Armament

IXXI – Assorted Armament

The way modernity destroys you is entry through the back door (hehe). While you’re watching for the enemy at the gates, someone sidles up to you with a mild proposition and you OK it. In the process, you’ve admitted the basic ideas of your enemy and those then grow inside of you.

IXXI is one such fifth column. Like a cross between Rammstein, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter and Ministry with an emphasis on black metal stylings and more organic percussion, this band seems extreme but in fact is a domesticated version of the feral emotions that metal unleashes. This is tamed; it panders to you, repeats itself, has jazzy interludes and rides the offbeat like a rock band. This is entertainment, not subversion.

The result is that you can listen to this whole thing and tune in for the death metal and black metal riffs in it and not notice how it quickly detours to hardcore riffing and then some funky, hooky, cheesy and quirky rock-n-roll tricked out in powerchords. Nothing here is badly done, and it’s catchier than most, but it has nothing to offer.

0 thoughts on “IXXI – Assorted Armament”

  1. fff says:

    This band sucks, but

    >rides the offbeat like a rock band.

    …What?

  2. LORD Xhotelthrinesh (THE NEW HOPE FOR BLACK METAL) says:

    WHEN I HAVE FINISHED MY UNHOLY OPUS THEN YOU SHALL SEE WHAT REAL BLACK METAL IS! I JUST HAVE TO CHECK WITH MY MOTHER WHEN IT’S OKAY FOR ME TO RECORD SOME DRUMS!

  3. LORD Xhotelthrinesh (THE NEW HOPE FOR BLACK METAL) says:

    PS. THE TITLE OF MY OPUS SHALL BE:
    The Screams of the Inferior Shall reverberate Throughout the Forest of silent Doom: The grimoire of Necrotic triumph (Part II)

  4. Huh ? says:

    This is entertainment, not subversion.

    And what about the possibility to disguise subversion as entertainment ?

  5. lol says:

    >mfw this didn’t get called indie rock

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