MOON ORACLE
MOON ORACLE “Ophidian Glare”
By Octopi Mills
Old Signal Rex Records....one wonders if their talent scouts are devils themselves, on a day pass from the layers of the swirling abyss. It is stated the concepts here explore the Ego and Id. The music is not the sound of the traditional Scandinavian sort and would have more in common with the bestial weight of the doomed sounds of something closer to SAMAEL or BEHERIT, something brutal and more bestial than the former sort of styles. Every now and again there is a form of melody within the sound but it doesn't seem to be paramount to the cause. "Nethereal Axe" seems to be the best explanation of their signature sound, if were one to make a short story a little shorter. They bang around and lumber and bash the same sort of feel and pace, making a familiar sort of grounds of home. It seems this is Finnish, and I must say it doesn't sound like most Finnish bands of this ilk. I would not have guessed that. It is weighty, brutish and effective in its methods.