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What the heck is sweet picking?

Does that mean that the vocals are actually farts?

Just taking a wild guess here.

I like black metal: that crazy, demonic rebellion against everything in existence. Black metal is to me, one of the more eccentric subgenres of heavy metal. If I could use a metaphor, thrash metal would be a high street retail shop, death metal would be a custom, edgy label, and black metal would be a couture brand. It is almost fashionably eccentric. I realize now that this statement could get me murdered but what the hell. I also like death metal. The fact that I can compare them to custom fashion labels is really a mark of the genre’s attention to technique and detail that I love so much.

Once in a while, a reviewer stumbles across bands like Necrowretch, who personally identify as death metal but sound more like black metal, and could in actuality be both. That’s hardly a problem though; it’s just getting the best of both worlds. It’s getting a couture label that puts out fashion shows with custom made everything's from curtains to plastic chairs with fake blood smothered on the model’s faces. It’s very interesting, but there’s a lot to live up to. Necrowretch's new album "Putrid Death Sorcery" is an incarnation of its name. It has its death metal elements, but it also sears with a “magic” or “sorcery” if you will, that just leads back to the essence of Black Metal.

This is evident in several characteristics, from vocalist Vlad’s higher pitched vocals and one-off growls, and also in the general more atmosphere-focused instrumentals. The production also seemed very black metal to me, with the usual thickness and crunchiness of death metal absent, replaced instead by an almost wistful base sound with seemingly twang guitars. “Goat-Headed”, “Putrid Death Sorcery”, and “The Antrhopomancer” were standout tracks for me, with breakneck speeds, interesting harmonies, and great solos appearing in the last two tracks, all with significantly death metal-esque bridges with insane riffing and madness on the drums.

It makes me happy when musicians go loony. It shows that they suffer for their art. Anyway, back to the point I’ve been trying to make: Is Necrowretch going through an identity crisis? And even if they are, is it necessarily a bad thing? Kierkegaard would be proud of me for being such an annoyingly inquisitive twat, asking questions when I already know the answer. Well, I take my philosophy just as seriously as Necrowretch takes their music. I also like making leading statements such as the sentence before this, proving only that heavy metal music serves as a great mental stimulant, contrary to popular opinion.

Listening through the entire album until the very end, I realized what an ass I was for trying to label the band as death/black metal. Sometimes they are death, sometimes they are black (much like Eminem), but who cares? It’s good music! I liked how evil yet poised and professional they seemed through their music, their personality running through every fiber, drawing out the best in both genres and combining it masterfully in an album that can categorically be best described as “music”. Not “black metal” or “death metal”, or “black/death metal”, just music. Yeah, that’s my expert opinion.

It’s not to say that the album was flawless. I mean, the only reason there are so many reviewers still working today is because none of them have found the perfect record yet. If they did, they would stop working and become a hobo for eternity, with nothing but an MP3 player full of the music from the “perfect record” to sustain them the rest of their lives. I know of no such reviewer or record.

That being said, the flaws of the album are not many and are mild in nature. Through their work in the album, the band gave me the impression that they were hell of musicians, so I was expecting them to surprise me at some point with some out-of-place genius ballad or perhaps some far-out technical chizz but they didn’t. I guess you could say they kept it simple, which was just a slight disappointment despite the fact that they seemed to me like one of those bands that would blow your mind with their godlike musical prowess at least once in the album.

All in all, it’s a great record. Not exactly death or black metal, so if you’re one of those people who listen strictly to one sub-genre *ahem-weirdo* this isn’t for you. But if you like all heavy metal music, and enjoy the thought of a band coming up with good shit instead of just marketable shit, then this album is for you.

"the lyrics and their message is what I'm interested in ! this band just gained my respect with this album ."

i won't talk about the music

we found a completely different lyrics themes it's like they moved from side to side a complete different thing

Is this a fuckin great split or is my name William Shakespear? Fuck off my name is NOT William Shakespear!

Oh my god this is one of the best things I've ever seen

This music is too hard to review, I'm going to ponder the meaning of life instead.

"Inexistenz is a Slovenian one man project playing straight Depressive Black Metal without modern or superficial influences.

“Erfundene Welten”, the second full-length album has a raw and cold touch, but in the meantime it is very melancholic and dark. The composition has a “classical” depressive black metal with drums and a rhythm guitar ranging from slow – mid pace (mostly) to fast tunes. The vocals are typical for this genre, not as is common, but just balanced high pitched depressive black metal screams.

It is kind of hard for me to explain in words how a good depressive black metal sounds like, but if this 6 track album would have a “story”, maybe it would be something like this …

There are some dilemmas that still define our existence, from quite ordinary daily basis questions to existential – philosophical ones. Probably the best known / popular in our days is a small passage from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” - “To be, or not to be: that is the question”.

But what are we exactly? What are we looking for? What do we want ? Is there a correct answer to any of these questions, is there a “standard” for all of us? Many of us don’t ask this kind of questions because “ignorance is bliss” and this is how all of those “sand castles” of fake fulfillment appear around us only to crumble at the first cruel hit of reality.

There is no understanding, there are no content moments and there is no absolute freedom. There is no life, only complete darkness and emptiness. We’re just pale illusions of what we were, lurking in a grey and oppressed world, lost between our own ruins, never being able to find our place again, decomposing and forever forgotten. We are our most feared enemy, our worst nightmare and cast our own sentence to complete silence and loneliness and no matter how hard we try, in the end there is only nothingness.

… and this his how “Erfundene Welten” sounds like. It is a little gem in a treasure box that, in recent time, didn’t surprise me with any truly good Depressive Black Metal. Great production, great composition and, as a bonus, 36 free minutes of therapy trough nihilism and depression.

I recommend you all check-out this album, nice release from Inexistenz and Naturmacht Productions."

That one has some German profanity and other random and made-up words mixed in, but it doesn't make any sense. Who submitted this? I assume a spam bot couldn't do something as specific as submitting a review? Deserving of a ban in any case, I'd say.

"The sixth release from Massachusetts industrial/metalcore hybrid Killswitch Engage..."

I rejected it without reading further.

:lol: Industrial? Where do these folks hear such things in the music?

My favorite was this "Periodic Table of Heavy Metals" I saw once, where most of the genres were wrong or had odd band choices, but the kicker was the black metal section, which was missing literally every single huge second wave band like Darkthrone, Mayhem, Satyricon, Burzum, Emperor, and any other huge name you can imagine. But what band was found under black metal? Fucking Underoath.