Black Fucking Cancer : s/t

With a need for speed this nasty black metal band might attack their songs, but from the opener they do so with some thrash sensibilities. The Slayer influences is more tangible than any fetish for Darkthrone they might have. I did have to take a second listen to the finer points of "Acid Ocean" which follows the more polished arrangement of the opening track.The chanted vocal behind the blasts add a darker layer to their sound. They hit you with razor sharp riffing . This is not just throw a mic in a dark room and go wild with blast beats, which might be to the dismay of less discerning fans of black metal who go for any old blast beat. The energy they hit some of these chord progressions does have a raw power than reminds me of 1349 in places. The members of this band also hail from the projects Sentenced to Burn and Circle of Eyes. If that means anything to you. Some of the fat could have been trimmed from the 12 minute "Acid Ocean" namely some of the feed back that bridges into the song's final act.

Things slow down and find the black in an actual groove for "Blood Stained". They are unable to restrain themselves and hurl their instruments back into a blast beat. "Sinnritualvoid" lingers in feedback. In threatens several times in the first four and a half to become an actual song , but fights the urge to do so.  When it does it's more double bass driven. The blasts soon follow and thankfully only for sparse spasms, until the six minute mark. "Wall of Corpses" just kind of falls out of the previous song as this album begins to become more of a blur and lose the personality it was appearing to establish for the sake of being a feral mess. "Wall of Corpses" doesn't waste your time with drawn out sections of feedback. "Exit Wounds" finds itself dominated by the drums, which more often than not are locked in a blast beat. The darker more doom infused section midway into the song is a more powerful sonic statement than when everything was racing at the speed of chaos.

They indulge in some more atmospheric noise on the last song. Once they are galloping ahead into the brimstone, the blast become over indulgent and every thing begins to lose its luster as rusty blur of noise. I'll round this down to a 7.5 as it has some powerful moments at the beginning but started to lose me on the final two songs, but even then there were some moments that connected.


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