I always liked this Austrian band, both their two eras of „classic“ black metal and current shape of cold and misantropic post-black metal. So I think it’s obvious that I was looking forward to “Time is the Sulphur in the Veins of the Saint“ very much. And I have to say that it really kicked my ass!
„Time is the Sulphur in the Veins of the Saint“ is like a hallucinogenic trip beyond ordinary perception. Two 20-minutes-long odes to chaos and great black nothingness which will consume your brain and then return it blitzed with streams of nothing from deep space. It sounds like someone poured sand instead of blood into your veins and it rubs your senses from within and torments your consciousness with fear of neverending nothing, of time that has no beginning and no end, time that whirls the whole life, universe and existence. Time that turns everything to dust, meaningless nothing in infinity.
There fails all the comparisons. This is absolute nothing and absolute everything, the chaos in space of flowing elements, labyrinth of thoughts, that you will lost in, monstrous mass of relentless time that will consume you. This is a hard album, very hard album, only few will like it and few will understand it, if it is ever possible.
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Evil.
Heavy.
Electrifying.
Indescribable.
Unthinkable.
Disgusting.
Heavy.
Ugly.
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Hateful.
Unseizable and Nonexisting.
Unimaginable.
Endless and Neverending.
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Misantropic.
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Dehumanized.
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Chaotic.
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Yout just have to hear it or you have no chance to imagine how it sounds. You have to feel this album. You have to let it be the sulphur in your veins. It sounds apparently incongruous. Guitar passes from mad solos into raw riffs and back again in a second. Drums attack your ears with tons of blastbeasts apparently headlong and all around there flow so complicated bassguitar parts that the whole capacity of your brain will be busy. And then, add some strikes of heavy electronic, clock beating or chorales. „Time is the Sulphur in the Veins of the Saint“ is full of musical ideas. You just can’t understand it all during the first listening. Abigor plays a game with the listener and always keeps him in anticipation.
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It will probably sound like a cliche, but you truly have to hear this! Hear it and love it or hate it. And I personally love it. This is unbelievable psycho. From Abigor’s post-black metal era, begun with album „Satanited (A Journey Through Cosmic Infinity)“, is the current album the best one, the most mature one… the most abnormal one, most incomprehensible, but great. Excellent. Outstanding. Without any borders.
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Do you have a mess in your head from this review? You haven’t heard the album yet! |
