It was near the end of this album’s third track “Taklamakan”, where I regained confidence. Nattramn has what sounds like a coughing or gasping fit during the second track, which closes with a galloping series of riffs.Īdmittedly, during my first cursory listen to Death, Pierce Me, I thought I had, in fact, shot myself in the foot placing Swarth in STYA’s second installment. The track lengths fall mostly between eight and eleven minutes, outliers include “Sterile Nails and Thunderbowels” at about six minutes and the last track, “Feeble Are You, Sons of Sion” at a mere three minutes. “Sterile Nails and Thunderbowels” picks up with a more epic feel, and the vocals approach more “typical” black metal fare as well. Six or so minutes into “Death, Pierce Me” the vocals waiver and quake off into another quieter segment. Tremolo picking, fast steady drumming, and that… voice. Nattramn announces the album’s trve beginning, and the black metal begins. You really have to hear them to understand. They are very audible, and extremely high in the mix compared to the majority of black metal shrieking. I have not heard black metal vocals quite like these on any other album. The Satan Ov Hell hit the nail on the head in his article, at first, this seems a bit silly. Then vocalist Nattramn makes his appearance. I won’t introduce you to DSBM for a second time, rather, let’s delve immediately into Death, Pierce Me.ĭeath, Pierce Me begins with its self titled track, which opens with a slow, acoustic introduction and soft drums for almost two minutes. Silencer and depressive suicidal black metal were covered in an excellent article on the Toilet Ov Hell. Silencer played an offshoot of black metal called “depressive black metal” many other acts in a similar vein have been labeled “depressive suicidal black metal”. The first album we will cover today is Silencer’s 2001 album, Death, Pierce Me. We’ll take a look and compare them to the previous installment as we move through it. Soundtrack To Your Annihilation will cover three albums from various styles of black metal. Black metal has spawned countless subgenres and variations. Whilst many fans of extreme metal believe death metal rules over the other subgenres with violent authority, black metal has held court over fans with darkness, underhanded treachery, and fear. There have been countless debates over its purity daily discussions are held worldwide over what is “trve” (or “tr00”), acceptable, and what doesn’t belong in the canon. It has recently found itself in vogue, covered consistently and favorably by popular media outlets. The early focus on very low production quality was in reaction to this. Black metal’s 2nd wave was born out of the slick commercialization of death metal in the early 1990s. How much further could this series go? Consider hitting rock bottom and asking for a shovel, or digging your own grave at the barrel of a gun.īlack metal has come a long way since Darkthrone’s A Blaze in the Northern Sky, Emperor’s In the Nightside Eclipse, and since some guy killed another guy and no one could stop talking about it for over twenty years. Perhaps you thought placing Portal’s Swarth in the second installment was some kind of error. Allow the lens through which you view the world to cloud over with a dense, black fog. In a series that promises to get progressively weirder, darker, more brutal, and more difficult, we must venture forward specifically downward. We covered Cryptopsy’s None So Vile, Indian’s Guiltless, and Portal’s Swarth in two previous installments. Welcome back to Soundtrack To Your Annihilation, a series that at least three people have claimed to be excited about. An enthusiastic hello to readers and fans of the Toilet Ov Hell, our community, and all reptiles still successfully passing as human beings.
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