Blasphemous Gospells

Blasphemous Gospells – Terrible Gospells would rather hit the nail on the head – are the second attempt of the Serbian black metal band Eris. Seven years after their Symbols of Madness release another piece has seen the light of day. Being unaware with their early ‘opum magnum’, no comparison in terms of the quality is possible. As such, the discussion is limited to this output; which is awful enough.

Terror – nomen est omen – torments the listener with his inability to perform anything worth mentioning. Pointless screams, depressive black metal influenced exclamations (toilet sessions) or hardly inarticulate gibberish are the facets that make up his performance. As the whole approach of the band is to play music as raw as possible, everything is exceedingly noisy, not to mention unbalanced. The guitars give an impression as if they attempt to make the ‘raw’ Darkthrone era look like a poseur-Dimmu Borgir mainstream one due to their shrill sound. At least the band has a real drumkit. They should remove it… the demo received a way too commercial touch through this.

The songs are in such a style that the vocalist gives the impression that he is hardly able to catch some breathe – Cursed Messiah --, while at other times he seems to have some difficulties with the bodily fluids and screams exceedingly (passionately?) about it. Generally, the music is some violent Ildjarn worship or Darkthrone on bad drugs. Black metal so vbertrve that I am spending it two ‘v’s on it. What took them so long to get these tracks done remains hidden, because they rather give the impression of being a one-take-thing that countless bands do all the time.

Eris, do you have some final comments: “AR-O-GO-GO-RU-ABRAGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111”
I thought so. 1 point … for at least trying.

At some point you ask yourself, may this not be a parody band after all?