A solid candidate for album of the year, Throne of Heresy goes back the roots of war metal in Blasphemy and early Angelcorpse, keeping shorter grindcore-styled riffs in play in order to minimize song footprint and ensure hard-hitting and distinct songs populate this album.
War metal after all might be seen simply as the continuation of hardcore punk through the grindcore roots of bands like Zyklon B, Blasphemy, Niden Div 187, and Impaled Nazarene who wrote short high-intensity songs that aimed less for atmosphere than a swarming mood of intolerance and eugenic extermination of the weak, starting with the power bottom on the cross, the half-Jewish Jesus Christ.
Coming from Israel, Deathsiege aim to correct the colossal historical error of moralistic religion (which is not limited to Abrahamic religions) with a punch in the face of literalism, natural selection, and the necessity of conflict to avoid stagnation.
Tags: deathsiege, sodomy, War Metal
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All illusions burn
Equality evaporates
Christ is fisted (twice)
The Buddha vomits semen
The goat rapes Mohammed (twice)
Inversion is inverted
Reality returns
The capable enslave and murder the useless
Natural selection returns
We head toward the stars
Leaving behind a sparkling pink field of glitter corpses.
I’m sure to be one finding Ledney influences where none exist, yet it is good on these Israelis to condense their great demo material into a stanza upon the album. The search for the “perfect” word requires some participant receiving such, the higher coming down to the lower and vice versa.
I think they are trying to rein in war metal from being repetitive, expansive sprawl and to get closer to its roots in Sarcófago, Impaled Nazarene, Mythos, Zyklon-B, Niden Div 187, and Blasphemy. If they add a little of the atmosphere of Ildjarn, early Bathory, and Beherit, they might end up with something quite powerful. Dumbing metal down into a fungible product like late-stage hardcore punk did would be a mistake, but that is exactly what kvlt and war mvtal have tried to do in the main.
Axis of Advance was pretty good though
I did not mind it, but also did not end up listening to it repeatedly. After 1994, very little had staying power.
the BS mantra
Or just an observation. Music in general peaked in the 1990s because after that building on the hip-hop/disco/motown/fusion format became the default template.
Looks like Paul is about to break his “triennial” streak? I like them but don’t own any of their albums, but being USA I take note. Now we really are screwed! ha ha
With Havohej/Profanatica, a lot of their material is experimental, so one in seven releases is really good and the rest are best listened to on YouTube.
DtSoG and Profanatitas de Domonatia are the best output. The “Medley” on Grandmasters is perfect for hearing something played intuitively, automatic. I’ve become able to predict drumming patterns before they change, and a moment just before the beat, some kind of pleasureable clairvoyance, but it has to be engaging like Havohej. Also, I’m a huge fan of tempi maintenance from the end of a song leading into the next. https://youtube.com/watch?v=tE2Z0lTYvT8
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I like albums with continuity as well. There are several methods, some musical, some artistic, most both.
What I’d like to know is who created DtSoG? There was a mixup of members between Havohej and Profanatica, and vast material of rehearsals that Ledney has vaulted and released, yet who played and recorded Havohej’s album?
We know that there was a kind of orbit in NY/NJ metal where the same group of musicians helped each other. I would look toward related projects from the same time period. DTSG feels like it was recorded overnight in a basement studio.
That’s also my estimation of Ledney’s best work, but I don’t see how it’s a controversial opinion in any way. Seems obvious.
At this point, it is, but he has produced quite a lot of material. Like Motorhead and Master, Ledney is often best in compilation when working with musicians who manage the QA that he might otherwise blow off. Similarly, Lemmy did best when he had other experienced musicians around who enforced writing songs before the studio.
Like when GG Allin teamed up with Antiseen.
I would like a Ledney-Speckmann collaboration.
Great link, listened to it straight through. Ledney played with GG Allin I think? I was working in the warehouse at Service Merchandise around that time, ha ha. I wonder if he played drums in the high school marching band like every professional drummer I’ve known. Anyway, maybe we’ll get a surprise release on December 25 (and sorry if I just ruined it!)
Aoty candidate? Hmm I thought Desecresy would win this year easily.
There are some serious contenders. Serpent Ascending is in there too.
The Imprecation album is miles ahead of the pack for me. Runners up are Coscradh, Church of Disgust, and Trenchant.
I enjoyed the Trenchant. Most of the “underground” this year are consolation prizes that, if we did not appreciate them for keeping the old school on life support, we would never give a second listen.