We Rape the Cunt of the Virgin Mary / And the Black Cum Shall Spill Forth

Okay, there are a lot of Typhus haters. Some hate the band itself, some hate the main man behind it and Dark Horizons Records, a label of questionable character. I have never had a problem with it and go into this for the music only. If I want intelligent dissertations on life and philosophy, I'll read some Nietzsche, Kant or Kierkegaard.

I'm a sucker for decent presentations and this one does not miss. The one side of the cover being Typhus looking all blasphemous and shit with candles, bullets and spikes and the other a Profanatica or GBK rip off with a holy looking painting blasphemed with black and white corpsepaint...ooh, scary.

As for music, side one is Typhus with one long track, " We Rape the Cunt of Virgin Mary." Wow, what a creative title. I expect from the title Havohej or Profanatica worship but instead am greeted by well done black metal in a Nordic vein. Some of the parts do have a blasting feel of Black Witchery or Kult ov Azazel, U.S. brethren with Typhus, but mainly the influence is clearly older Dimmu Borgir and Gehenna, from Norway. The music is fast and thrashy but with slow atmospheric parts epic feel. The lyrics are pretty much tongue in cheek with lines like " And the black cum shall spill forth, upon her face in sin we cum." Poetry, this is not.

Side two is the mysterious "Crowned In Semen." Now you would think this is definitely a tribute to the great Profanatica and you could be right. The three short tracks CIS do are "Fallen Angel of Sodomy," Tears of Jehovah," and "of Holy Sacrament And Semen." Holy sacrament AND semen...sign me up! No, seriously, the music for CIS is straight up Profanatica worship with a Blasphemy or Revenge touch. The riffs are razor sharp and the drums are one straight blasting beat. This is not exactly amazing, but it doesn't disappoint either. The vocals are growled or shouted and sound very much like Profanatica as well.

Overall, this is nothing outstanding and certainly nothing to write home about. It is a decent piece of USBM black art and one that if you find in the dollar bin, pick up. It's good for a laugh at the lyrics and art if nothing else. Oh, and the music is decent as well. Hail Satan, Crush Jehovah...yada yada yada...