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Clandestine Blaze " Delivers of Faith"

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Still highly churning out among the best black metal the scene has to offer, Clandestine Blaze continue on their path of skull-crushing, Christ-bashing and still sound as fresh and as true as they did with their earlier work. Though I was a fan of their previous albums and E.P.s ('Below the Surface of Cold Earth' being among my favorite black metal albums), I seemed to enjoy 'Delivers of Faith' more than I expected. That album is a very slight progression to a colder, more surreal sound ala Sear Bliss, specifically from their last full length 'Fist Of The Northern Destroyer' (though still a solid album). Mind you I speak not of some sort of progression to becoming some sort of faux black metal band (name dropping here seems inappropriate) but to just a different level of sheer intensity. Clandestine Blaze delivers not only the faith but some of the most exciting and trance-inducing black metal heard in awhile.

8.5 / 10

Mikko Aspa is a master of the the two seminal forms of black metal: The doom-laden Celtic Frost brans of sluggish, wicked chug & The blurring blasts of minor key deviant melodicism. His band, Clandestine Blaze, has over time become bent towards a more primal, sneering and ruthless feel. C.B. has been key in asserting itself within the context of the Northern Heritage release "Primitive Finland." Their brand of no frills black metal is growled, gnarled, basic, and brutal. It takes the best of the styles Darkthrone was pushing on "Panzerfaust" and it has made it more coherent, consistent, and more realistic and neanderthal is sound. The sound is harsh and it stands as a consuming beast. The band has no face or fake and deliberate selling point. This is real black metal; no comprmise...Plug in and PUMMEL the recorder attitude.