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NECROFIER “Transcend Into Oblivion”
NECROFIER “Transcend Into Oblivion”
By Theron Moore
Texas black metallers NECROFIER are back for the proverbial attack with new record “Transcend Into Oblivion” set to go full on scorched Earth February 27 via Metal Blade Records. I'm always wary of American black metal bands trying their hand at what the Norwegians perfected forty plus years ago but have no fear, NECROFIER delivers the goods...and then some.
States vocalist / guitarist Bakka: “Transcend Into Oblivion” is based on a Luciferian Dark Night Of The Soul..." That's the long story short. Song-wise, the record is split up into three acts: "Fires Of The Apocalypse, Light My Path," "Servants Of Darkness, Guide My Way," and "Horns Of Destruction, Lift My Blade." It should go without saying that this is a heavy, intricate, massively well thought out record centered around the concept of the Luciferian Dark Night Of The Soul.
I’ll try to do this justice. The traditional version of the Luciferian Dark Night Of The Soul is a painful spiritual purification through God's withdrawal, stripping away the self to unite with God. The Luciferian version is a transformative crisis focused on confronting your shadow self and ego to unlock your own divine potential and achieve self-mastery but the difference is, instead of purifying yourself for God, you're using darkness as a crucible to awaken your inherent divinity—embracing Lucifer's symbolism of enlightenment, knowledge, and rebellion as a path to becoming your own source of inner light. Clear as mud, right?
The songs on this record are intense, the music is harsh - the way it should be, and the overall vibe of 'Transcend Into Oblivion' is bleak and lacking all hope. In other words, it's what I expect black metal to sound like. For me this album was killer not just from the vantage point of the music itself but the fact that “Transcend Into Oblivion” is unsettling, it makes you feel uncomfortable. Did NECROFIER nail it? Nailed it…to the cross. If you're a fan of black metal or just curious what the dark side is like, I encourage you to stream / buy this record, it's pretty damn good.
4/5 Stars
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