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Rating: A minute and forty-one seconds of tongue-twisting sung at the top of his lungs by Tom Araya, the craziest shard of that sonic devastation named “Reign in Blood”, the album that went beyond the known boundaries of the extreme at the time. What better name for a group born with the precise intent of creating a darker form of death metal?
The ultimate goal of Necrophobic at the beginning of their career was to throw death metal into an even blacker abyss than the one in which it was already born, to make the music as dark as pitch, cold and distant, yet still loaded with (obviously negative) emotions and morbid passion. So, enchanting and tempting melodies still make an appearance throughout the various songs of “The Nocturnal Silence”, debut album that came to light in the year of our Lord 1993, supported by the classic Swedish chainsaw guitars (Thomas Skogsberg docet) that relentlessly grate the air with always inspired and varied riffs occasionally aided by the touch of gloomy keyboards. In hindsight, it’s a very black way of interpreting death, so much so that as their history progresses, the band will veer toward a hybrid genre between the two, but the beauty of this record is that it is pure death metal in all respects despite conceptually wanting to be black metal, a genre that was emerging in Norway at the time but had not yet arrived in Sweden, just listen to Marduk's debut or the first demos of Dissection to realize that the reference was music in the style of Entombed and not that of Darkthrone. The power of death metal here is still at its peak, yet the blasphemous atmosphere that is created will make all those black metal enthusiasts with painted faces happy, whose wettest dream is to go buy a can of gasoline with Varg Vikernes.
An album that unites and satisfies two worlds, which though close, are distant, even if it may not seem so.
Tracklist and Lyrics
04 Where Sinners Burn (04:11)
Holy father in the sky
Inhuman lord of darkest lies
We burn the feeble christian cross
And curse the holy son of God
At dawn we summon the master below
The horned one shall take your soul
Behold the shadows of the moon
And wish you were never born
Holy father
We are the worshippers of darkness
Holy father
Feel our hate from below
We are the sons of hell
We shall live on forever
We are the ones who sold our souls
In the unholy name of evil
Behold the flames of hell
The abyss where sinners burn
Forever you shall dwell
In the fires without return
No god shall ever live
No lies shall ever be told
We desecrate Jesus Christ
And turn the crucifx upside down
Burn the corpse of Jehova
In the flames of hell it shall be done
Devour the holy Messiah
Consume the forgotten son
The paradise is no more
The burning of heaven I behold
My vision of hell was true
As it was foretold
07 Before the Dawn (04:20)
At dawn the prophecies were told Demonic spells surrounded the moon Infernal flames enlightened the altar Where the lord awaited the human sacrifice Before the dawn of time The devil was cursed from heaven Condemned to the abyss of hell Satan seeks for the merciless revenge In the shadows of the damned The priest speaks the incantation A sacrifice to the lord Shall be made of human blood and flesh Awaiting at the altar of death The priest prepares for the dying Satan consumes the victim As the black mass comes to the end Priest: Lord of darkness, hear the call Come forth and bring us evil Arise from hell before the dawn And break the holy curse Priest I sacrifice you bastard child The time has come to take your life Born of evil in the name of Christ YOU SHALL DIE!!!
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