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Nietzschean fury, creeping sounds of arcane memory.
A sense of "ancient" pain flows through macabre notes, sometimes slow and obsessive, other times quickly brutal and barbaric. Absurd voices rasping a blinding pessimism, vibrant distorted harmonies that slice the air celebrating the cult of emptiness, of nothingness, of negative absolutism. The song of poison, the sulfurous hymn to isolation and the rediscovery of the self, so pitifully abandoned by centuries of perpetuated nostalgia and illusions.
The return of the misanthropic Norwegians after three years of silence is celebrated with this icy creature by the name of "Ravishing Grimness", a sonic celebration of a stylistic change in their offering, yet fervently anchored to the hated/loved patterns that made them famous. The "eerie sound" howls venomously in the opening track "Lifeless", a slow ride amidst cascades of liquid guitars, whose ignobly wicked melodies are "narrated" by the vitriol spat out by the throat of the well-known Nocturno Culto. The ending is enriched with murderous accelerations and a lyricism with no trace of hope whatsoever...
Deadly is the anthem of the rapid and "urgent" "The Beast", reminiscent of putrescent memories in early Celtic Frost style, with drumming launched towards the blackest oblivion and incandescent screams of vomited terror surrounding this delirium of hateful beastliness. Pachydermic and suffocating in the introductory riff "The claws of time" it martyrs with a melancholic stride, the nostalgic hymn of hermits lost in timeless forests. Chilling melodies make it unique and enthralling.
Tremendously, "symphonically" brutal, are "Across the vacuum" and "Ravishing grimness" where fast and abrasive riffs clash with the devastating onslaught of Fenriz's perfect drumming, skillfully juggling the tempos, giving the instrument the typical "black" sound that rendered it immortal. The production slowly becomes clearer and offers the opportunity to better appreciate the duo’s qualities, without neglecting the typically Norwegian abrasive roughness.
Lethal closure entrusted to the furious black-thrash assault of "To the death(under the king)", which recalls the morbid past of Darkthrone and merges it with the "garage" fury of early Bathory. Fearsome is the singer's bark, the scream of a possessed witch, desperately elusive among solitary woods.
The return of the icons of the most misanthropic metal, destined to open a new era of highly inspired works, yet "nostalgically" anchored to the glorious past. Poisonous and icy "Ravishing grimness" embodies the fury of piercing, endless snow storms.
Fear it.
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
01 Lifeless (05:42)
Deprived of will
Three feet in the grave
Decaying soul
Myself I shall kill
Lifeless
Deprived
Lifeless
In hatred
Portal of fear
With ornaments of sin
Barren life
Drained of blood, I'm near
Lifeless
Deprived
Lifeless
In hatred
Awaiting grimly in the shadows...
Utter totalitarian fortresses of voidmight
In the water of life the circuits are breaking
Eons of numb hopelessness lies ahead
Lifeless
Deprived
Lifeless
In hatred
02 The Beast (05:29)
Elapsed chainless activity
Timeless contradiction
Born without flesh
Stand - still movement
Nothing is in perspective
Smashing ground
Conscious, aware...
Mindflight fully digested
Consequences beyond rational
- Thought
Aiming for the featherless
For it is bound ot existence
Sources floating - shimmering
- events, that make the warrior
Proud
Blackhole invulnerability
Black flames gallantly dancing
Threading human soil
Sworn to intoxicate the
- Planet
Magnitide unveiled
Profused tailored terror
Forlorn hope
Locked behind crumbled doors
Impoverished life
Desolated globe
03 The Claws of Time (07:02)
Trapped in the claws of time
Bone Hard Deathsane
Necrohated By angels
Beneath the crust, shredding moans
Pretenders of sorrow
Elder perseverance learns
Fakers of deathyearns
Killed by tomorrow
Mind spoiled, innards corrode
Merciless grind Drone or die
Contradictions swirl (in) hysterical contortions
Resistance is futile
Pretenders of sorrow
Elder perseverance learns
Fakers of deathyearns
Killed by tomorrow
04 Across the Vacuum (07:14)
Gurning victim Insane on pain
Bridges burnt Future cremated
Cursed by damnation Mental shreddings
Across the vacuum; The churning souls
Irrationally panzergrim fears
Impending havoc nears
Demons of lost years and seconds
Behold the lord of sin, he beckons
Eerie tornado Of naked angst
Contamination of sanity Degenerating rewardsystem
Certified possession Inverted mind
Nerves left splintered Bare and torn
Sick (crippled) fucked and forlorn
Another disciple (is) born
Silent feeble cries
No one knows you die
06 To the Death (Under the King) (04:45)
Another day
Of misery ablaze
Running screaming
From insanity's reign
(It's) a living nightmare
Confused mind
Carpetbombed and pierced
By utter psychic havoc
Pinehill salvation
To the death
Sore trembling haven
when (the) pain overwhelms
(what if death won't set me free?)
Under the king
Carnal life
Hedonistic
Turning into (the) animal
Alien, unhuman
Detached from RAOM
Pinehill salvation
To the death
Sore trembling haven
when (the) pain overwhelms
(what if death can't set me free?)
En skygge av det som engang var
I've become an empty soulsick shell
From my solemn hill in sunset
I throw myself to grim foreverhell
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