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Reaping Hate - 92%
This stands as the final doctrine of Judas Iscariot. Bowing out for similliar reasons as such cult acts as Maniac Butcher, which inevitably is based on the "Current developement of the so called scene" we are left with a damn fine recording.
Based on "The agony of 30,000 souls that perished on St. Bartholomews Night near Kronstadt, Romania in the year 1460 at the hands of the Dragon Prince" this album on concept alone this is a fairly unique, and very interesting album.
Kicking of with a very short clip of some rain and as thunder rips the guitars and drums drop wailing in. This first song and the second maintain a fairly consistant Judas sound of sheer hate followed by a screaming throat of blackness, which is for the most part an original voice. As these songs roll on by (pretty much fading into each other with little notice of a transition), you are begining to see that this album is in the same vein of previous efforts but the musicianship has improved much. From the riffing, to the overall song structure, and feel this is like a tightend up evolved JI, too bad its the last full length well ever get.
In the very begining of the fourth track theres a little clip, or something in the sound, which the inlay explains. Saying the error could have been corrected, but they choose to simply leave the recording as is, so I guess they just kept it true to elite standards of musicianship to appease the fans. I guess one very strong reason as to why this is as good as it is, is that yet agian JI have put forth an album of true oldschool Black Metal that is very much done with utter reverence towards keeping their old sound while still growing musically, and unsheathing new, and creative tunes, and when you have put out as many albums of good music one must get somewhere further over time.
This next track (the fifth), my pick as favorite, starts out with some mid paced guitar chords put to a killer keyboard sound, and riff. Droping off rather quickly when the vocals come in, its about here you start to see how well this album was mixed. When the keyboards return, playing the same riff, its draged out a bit with some cool drum fills, and then on to another riff which is also accompanied by keys untill the drums kick in with some blasting and the guitars begin to play a speed picked riff that is, well sounds, like a classic Judas riff. Fading out after some repetition of a few riffs.
At the risk of repeating my self ridiculously much I will end here.
Main point:
If you are a fan of hate filled grim black metal in its purist form then this is for you. If you worship underground oldschool Metal than get this, you wont be disappointed.
