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TEITANBLOOD “From The Visceral Abyss”
TEITANBLOOD “From The Visceral Abyss”
By Dr. Abner Mality
I’ve always regarded TEITANBLOOD as a “noise for noise’s sake” band...an unending racket designed to make you pull your hair out. Death metal, black metal, war metal...they all got mixed together with a lot of feedback and industrial-strength cacophony to form TEITANBLOOD. Not much in the way of actual songs or riffs.
So I didn’t look forward to this one much. I have to be honest...the band is starting to grow on me. Oh, there’s still plenty of fingernail on blackboard mayhem here. But there is a real movement towards actual riffs and songs. And when they hit those moments, they are really devastating. Are there enough to move this into the “recommended” column? Mmm, not suite sure of that yet. But “Sepulchral Carrion God” and “Strangling Visions” have their share of slower, crunchier riffs and cataclysmic atmosphere. Perhaps the most amazing track here is the final blast of “Tomb Corpse Haruspex”, which goes for over 14 minutes. I was looking forward to a 14 minute TEITANBLOOD track about as much as a vasectomy without anesthesia. Wonder of wonders….the song features the best structure and strongest riffs of any song this band has ever done. Some truly great doomy tones here...and even the creepy ambient noise of the last couple of minutes is genuinely disturbing.
Despite this, this album still retains the hellish onslaught that TEITANBLOOD is known for. A crackly layer of noise and static seems to blanket the whole album and the title track in particular is almost unendurable racket. So masochistic fans of the band will certainly get what they’re looking for, but those like me who wrote the band off may be surprised by signs of progression amidst the chaos.
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