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Rating: There is no light in the heavy, metallic grooves crafted by Reverend Bizarre. There is no opening, nothing at all. Just fucking powerful, deflagrating, and infinite acid doom metal. Three madmen who couldn't care less about experimentation, technology, or any kind of polished modernization to produce a record of black, grandiose, ironic, and anciently "classic" doom metal. Their music is the musical and conceptual extremization of the Swedish band Candlemass.
"II: Crush the insects" is the second studio chapter of this extremization, which had already showcased its black cloaks in the EP "Return to the rectory". Then, in 2005, came "Crush the insects", another dark behemoth from the Finnish trio from Lohja. Virtually no originality, innovation below zero: to hell with musical sophisms, they value the decaying rawness of the guitar, the sluggish pace, the ancestral and pagan echoes. They elaborate the epic sound of the past with the raw "Cromwell", destroy every hope with the inexorable advance of the opener "Doom over the world", and sweep away everything and everyone with the kyussian surge of "By this axe I rule!", a harrowing example of the Reverend's musical creed.
A Reverend Bizarre album is the primordial and mystical marriage of Candlemass, Pentagram, Saint Vitus, and Black Sabbath, taken to the nth degree and then filled with hallucinations, pitch, and rockslides from Cirith Ungol.
Heaviness (and guts) are grateful.
1. "Doom Over The World" (7:37)
2. "The Devil Rides Out" (6:10)
3. "Cromwell" (5:25)
4. "Slave Of Satan" (13:28)
5. "Council Of Ten" (8:32)
6. "By This Axe I Rule!" (10:02)
7. "Eternal Forest" (10:53)
8. "Fucking Wizard" (11:15)
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
05 Council of Ten (08:32)
Through the darkness witches fly
although I think I see no broom
Spreading plaque across the sky
their mist is drawing down the moon
Council gathers in the hall
to pray before their first trial.
Can you hear the church bell toll?
Or will you cover your ears?
Staring with their empty eyes
from the circle witches rise.
Now they learn to live in fear
Flesh will burn
and evil spells are broken again.
Everywhere I look it´s the same old story
Devil has his cunning ways to lure you
Always choose the right hand turn and honour
Nail the sinners down with your boot on their face
Right!
Our time will come at the end of the days
We hold the iron cross above the Goat of Mendes
Vision must be served in the old-fashioned way
Brotherhood in red, won´t you ride with me?
08 Fucking Wizard (11:15)
When crimson darkness rules the earth
and creatures gather behind your window…
How does it feel to be all alone?
How does it feel to hear them roam?
Sleep won´t come no matter how hard you try.
At your threshold they are stalking - Closer and closer!
When the time has come for you to meet your deepest fear
please don´t forget that I will be always near.
I´m your saviour, your spark of hope.
Just summon me and I will be there.
With my magick I expel your demon.
With Divining Rod and Blessed Semen.
I´m the warlock of carnal lust.
In my dominion pleasure will be yours.
All the things immoral I possess.
I shall build my church in to your flesh.
Ooh!
Darkness falls penetrating my balls.
Can this be our reality.
Fool in love, Fucking Wizard.
Can hardly wait - Let´s get laid!
C´mon baby the time is right.
The most secret Hour of Moon.
Try to make it just one night.
Raise heat until we swoon.
Our bodies are full of desire.
Suck me dry so I can die.
Your lips applied with fire
kissing my ass goodbye!
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