MUTIILATION
MUTIILATION “Black Metal Cult”
by Octopi Mills
After a long sleep Meyhnach has awakened that old entity known as MUTIILATION. Over 30 years since its creation, the French black metal band has inspired many and created its own sound, this is for certain. The title track is a howling, swirling vortex of negativity, falling right in with the signature sound; dreadful depressive noise that is ugly and sickly. The lyrics deal with the internet destroying the black metal scene....a bit strange, but true as anything.
"Hominicide" has wild vocals that sound like the man is authentically overtaken by a swarm of insect demons as he decrees the death against man and life and living and the killing of all humans, almost as if the suicidal spirit of the past has now become more focused on murder and harm to the fellow man. The talk of the matter is killing humans with a blade and stalking them under a blood red moon. The vocals created a crackling and whirling funnel cloud of storm and insanity, evil and old sounding. Dissonant sounds fill the affair in the most chaotic manner on this song and entire album, a newfound flame of hatred that is intense and predatory, deformed and cursed. The vocals are at an all time form; insect like and demonic, animal like and damned spirits coming from the shell of a lost, waywardly soul that was broken long ago. There is a hint of finding some sort of dark happiness in the third track, a death like lunar landsacpe that is created by the picking of notes in the old traditional way, creating a sort of noble moment that is brief. Track four becomes a dark fantasy of sorts as is stated:
"I saw what shouldn't be, nothing will shine again"
"The Fall of Islam" Is something else in its lyrical aspect, something to surely offend the Islamic, and is scornfully worded to break bones and hurt feelings. The final track speaks sickly of a metaphorical mirror and ends in blackness and suicide, growing old and bitter. I must say I was quite surprised at the effort and intense delivery that befell with such deep, evil evocations presented here. This album judged by the others lacks only the old sound that of course no one uses much anymore, but other than this it compares with the best of the band's releases.