Blasphemy Rites - Hideous Lord
Blasphemy Rites have proven one thing with their latest album: the marriage of grindcore and black metal should never be! What one has here is what sounds like an improv jam session, over anything else. Every track by these crazy Pols is out of control and distorted to the maximum. While the atmosphere created on tracks such as "Alcoholic Sabbath" and "Sodomize Holy Angel" is evil enough- just as the band wants- the only blasphemy here is how uncoordinated the music is. The drums are the strongest presence on the album, but the guitars and vocals blot out everything else. The bass can be heard on most tracks, thick and clear- which is usually rare in black metal- especially on "Hideous Lord," but compared to all the other tracks it still sounds the same. Vocally, there is a switch between grunts and shrieks, but the drums and guitars generally overtake them so they aren't heard to their full extent, and the blistering pace of the music doesn't help either.
As twisted, and dumb, as the track titles sound, some actually do become engaging. "Alcoholic Sabbath" has a great drum intro before become covered in a thick bass, and "Drink The Poison Piss..." has a haunting choral/ funeral march section that serves as a great outro. It is moments like these that demonstrate how Blasphemy Rites just MAY have some cohesive talent after all, but then one listens to the other tracks and they remember why they hate this album so much. Maybe generating a feeling of hate is what Blasphemy wanted in the end, but it won't help record sales. For those who enjoy down and dirty, grim, short, and misanthropic music that is as primitive as one can get, then maybe this album is for you. For those who are looking for a more well rounded album with a better sense of direction, try something else. Blasphemy Rites are certainly evil, but sometimes evil can be too rediculous to enjoy or taken seriously...
As twisted, and dumb, as the track titles sound, some actually do become engaging. "Alcoholic Sabbath" has a great drum intro before become covered in a thick bass, and "Drink The Poison Piss..." has a haunting choral/ funeral march section that serves as a great outro. It is moments like these that demonstrate how Blasphemy Rites just MAY have some cohesive talent after all, but then one listens to the other tracks and they remember why they hate this album so much. Maybe generating a feeling of hate is what Blasphemy wanted in the end, but it won't help record sales. For those who enjoy down and dirty, grim, short, and misanthropic music that is as primitive as one can get, then maybe this album is for you. For those who are looking for a more well rounded album with a better sense of direction, try something else. Blasphemy Rites are certainly evil, but sometimes evil can be too rediculous to enjoy or taken seriously...
- Bestial Necromancy Sex
- Genocide
- Hideous Lord
- Beergoat Of Sodomy
- Don't Need Your Guts
- Alcoholic Sabbath
- Damned Bastard Of Hell
- Apocalyptic War
- Sadistic Blacking Metal
- Drink The Poisoned Piss Of Baphomet
- Sodomizing Holy Angel
- Atomic Discharge
- Empty Chalice
- Satan Bless You
- Dethroned Emperor (Celtic Frost cover)
