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UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN - häxan-sabaoth DigiCD | ||||||||||||||
| Witness Häxan
Sabaoth. Both a culmination of their characteristic aesthetic and a
whole new, supernatural twist upon it, Häxan Sabaoth sees
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN fusing clanging angularity with haunting
atmospherics, delirious chaos with eerie melodicism, epic narrative
with primal crush - essentially, an extrapolation (and
intensification) of seemingly polar opposites. And yet, through that
same strange magick, the Chileans conjure a tableau that's undeniably
their vastest and most violent to date. Riffs and rhythms pound and
mutate with hypnotic ease, breaking down the listener's will; momentum
becomes slipstreaming, with dread sounds bubbling up from every
crevasse of this abyss; motifs then flicker with frightening clarity
before disintegrating into something equally dread-inducing. For
however "pure" and primordial UNAUSSPECHLICHEN KULTEN's death metal
is, there's' daresay a newfound grace across Häxan Sabaoth -
malodorous and miasmic, yes, but it effectively lends an airiness to
what's already an exceptionally dense & dissonant foundation.
Likewise, the considerably cleaner production ably intensifies the
atmosphere with no sacrifice in physicality. That the cover art
manages to capture this whole dichotomy is surely no accident. Many
words could (and should) be written about this accomplishment, but the
short of it is that UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN here have daringly raised
an impossibly high bar. Häxan Sabaoth is their grandest achievement
yet, and guaranteed to be one of this decade's defining death metal
tomes. Tracks:
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