Snuff || Hiroshima

Fäulnis, in my humble opinion, has had very few hiccups in terms of songs; the overall experience has always been nothing short of awesome. That was until Snuff and Hiroshima came about after 5 years of silence.

The album starts with an amazing track, Grauen. Soaked in post-black metal and Seuche's unique vocals, which sound like howling speaking, if that makes sense. The album's next song is even better, with a Rammstein vibe to it in the beginning, which blows up all of a sudden into fast-paced melancholic black metal. Weil wegen Verachtung (2nd track) is also a more than adequate song title, as the song really feels like "contempt," but in a good way.

This record gets a low score because of the utterly boring rest of the catalog. These two openers really were so good that they got the whole record a 55%.

Usually, music is considered good or well-done if it makes you feel something, regardless of whether it is positive or negative.
The rest of the songs don't make me feel anything; it's like listening to someone speak for so long that all the words lose their meaning.

The tracks sound like a guy with ADHD put all his focus and effort into the two first amazing tracks, and used the leftovers to make 7 tracks out of them. It doesn't feel like black metal, it feels like he was playing around with his indie rock riffs, and all of them happened to take place in the rest of the tracks, which were then filled with some rare blastbeats and double-bass drums. The vocals are still good, but instrumentally it fails. The only thing interesting in the rest of the songs are the lyrics (and vocals), which are great in the form of decay and rejection of societal norms.

Fäulnis was followed up by Antikult in 2017, which I did a review on. I'm very happy to tell you they did everything right, which was wrong here. It was a big cleanup and a sweet ending to Fäulnis's career.

I couldn't really recommend this album in its entirety to anyone, but the first two songs I've played to most of my metalhead friends.