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| 01:05 am [Link] |     Ага. А вот вернулся к жизни некогда почти что скандальный веб-зин Teufel's Tomb. Скандальным (в хорошем смысле) он был из-за рецензий на, в том числе все-субкультурно любимые, альбомы, где последние вываливались в говне, перьях, смоле, и посыпались нюхательным табаком. Трэш-кабаре в том виде, в котором таковое было задумано древними богами. Предпочтение редколлегия отдавала примерно той же продукции, что и The Grimoire, только Чертова Могила также ценила Блацк Митал, и стилистически была поизящнее Бил Зебуба. Несмотря на явно издевательский характер почти половины обзоров, нельзя не отдать должное мастерству рецензентов - читать Teufel's Tomb куда занятнее, чем очередной дурацкий сайт с формулярными отзывами, падающий на жопу от пережеванной в двадцатый раз продукции, выпущенной на не менее дурацких издательствах. А вот замечательный пример того, как надо писать рецензии (написано тем же ревьюером, что и другой упомянутый обзор) DARKTHRONE "Sardonic Wrath" Label: Moonfog Release: 2004 Every review you're gonna read of this album is going to start out with something ala "DARKTHRONE IS BACK!!!!!!!" or "Following a ride in the way-back-machine..." so since I'm the first person I've seen reviewing this I'm gonna work through the clichйs right here: DARKTHRONE IS BACK!!!!!!! I really don't care what the hell happened since Hate Them last year and I'm not going to bother finding out, but whatever it is, it's about fucking time! Darkthrone, whilst retaining the position as my favorite band of all time, has bored me consistently since 1996's ill-produced (yes, even the band agree with that) Total Death, but somehow they're fucking back to almost exactly where they stood in 1995. Gone are the Satyricon riffs, the midrange-over-absolutely-everything-else production and the uninspired drudgery. I just made up the word "drudgery," but you know exactly what it means, don't you? Fuck you! New fucking paragraph! For the first time since Panzerfaust this record has treble and the bass is fuzzed to hell, and it sounds GREAT! The vocals are the most varied output they've done since Goatlord (and that was another fucking vocalist altogether) and now that I think of it that bloody well has to be someone else than Nocturno Culto on the last track, Silent Majority. If it's Fenris or some guest vocalist I don't know and since I've just got the album in shitty MP3's I won't find out either, but JESUS CHRIST IN THE MANGER it is the best shit I've heard since I semi-randomly picked up a copy of Roger Whittaker's New World In The Morning back in the humid and strangely fucked up summer of 2000. I lived for six months in a town which is pretty much a roundabout next to 500 Indians, and there was a time we thought they had stolen our mailbox, but it turned out that wasn't the case. Anyway, Nocturno Culto himself sounds a fair bit more pissed off than usual, and as if he has a genuine interest in presenting the lyrics, which is a trait I've missed for years. I can't tell you a thing about the lyrics since I don't have them and can't make out much of what he's going on about, but there's a song called Sjakk matt Jesu Krist (translation: "Check mate Jesus Christ," but you figured that out on your own and now you're thinking "what a piece of condescending shit this asshole is," so fuck you once more) and that's downright the best title I have EVER heard next to maybe the Not Noel Coward Song by Monty Python or Mad At God off the new Deicide. I just lied about the Deicide title, 'cause that one fucking SUCKS ASS and you know it already so you don't need me to tell you that. Somewhere around the middle of the record it sounds like Nocturno Culto suddenly starts stabbing himself in the ass with one of those old-fashioned razor blades you see really bad motherfuckers use in the movies to cut people up with, and he sounds like a dying horse. I've never heard a dying horse, but I have a damned well idea of how it probably sounds, so I'm that's my story and I'm sticking with it. The overall energy in the performance outshines the last four records to such an immense degree that I'm so perplexed by the whole thing, I had to open up a window to catch a breath of fresh air and have a glass of ice cold Coke. Now I'm typing with a cat in my lap which ain't easy, but I'm getting away with murder anyway. This record is the best black metal, no scratch that, it's the best ANY fucking metal record I have heard since 1992 and that's no fucking joke, it's an exaggeration. Any band who started playing black metal after 1991 can officially go FUCK themselves, Sardonic Wrath lays down the law and closes the chapter, this is the album that should have been released as Krieg in 1996. Fuck off and go to hell. Current Music: Адаптация - Так горит степь. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Крутота! Ты сам то его слышал? У меня после Ravishing Grimness белое пятно, в том смысле, что ни один из последующих релизов не втыкал. В cd-player. (Reply to this) (Thread)
Нет пока, но очень хочу. После Ravishing Grimness были Plaguewielder (2001, по большому счету хуйня) и Hate Them (2003, заметно лучше, но в духе RG). (Reply to this) (Parent) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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