Bestial Mockery
Gospel of the Insane

Revival black-thrash, 'sti cazzi. The wave of the moment, according to the very perceptive Sunday reviewers who are plaguing our favorite magazines, is to play extreme old-fashioned metal, inspired by the golden period when now well-defined genres like thrash, death, and black were still an indistinguishable malevolent mush.

These Bestial Mockery are unfortunately touted as the new prophets of the genre, despite the multiple objections from yours truly. They are nothing more than the classic Osmose school band, fake raw metal that should be inspired by sonic monsters like Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Venom, Bathory, early Sodom, and beautiful eighties company, but actually mimic the more death-oriented Swedish black metal, with some thrash passages here and there, riffs so predictable that they make even the Milan center sales period blush, filtered vocals, semi-perpetual blast-beat drums (veeeeeery old school!), somewhat reverberated plastic production to seem dark enough to be misunderstood as "sonic rot," and none, not a damn reference to the above-listed sonic deities: if there are bands in which old school is not at home, one of them is surely Bestial Mockery, among which some members seem to be active in other extreme bands of nostalgic Nazis like the embarrassing Sons of Satan (a moniker that for originality even beats Impaled Northern Moonforest of the good Set "p***y an*l" Putnam, which is saying something).

In short, this new revival trend seems to have foundations as solid as the Twin Towers, and it’s no coincidence that to listen to raw, primitive, and extreme metal in 2009, the only solution is to look at bands from the '80s: the only certainties of the new millennium are acts like Nifelheim, Sabbat, Abigail, or others that, coincidentally, have been around for several years. Even though, to be honest, it would be enough to also look at our local underground to find remarkable bands, see Blasphemophager with the furious demo "Ritual Infested Carnage," a true sonic blow, without various ornaments or useless circumlocutions. In conclusion, I recommend staying far away from hoaxers like Bestial Warlust, Black Witchery, Goatpenis, Nunslaughter, bands praised by all the supposed connoisseurs of metallic barbarities but concretely banduole without art or part that should be denounced at the extreme metal tribunal, if one ever existed, and hopefully one day it really will arise.