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Inhneumon Method

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I've been involved in the metal scene in one way of another for over 13 years now, and honestly, not since my first listens to Emperor's "Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk", Slayer's "Reign In Blood", or Morbid Angel's "Covenant", have I been this PROFOUNDLY blown away. This is the sound of pure destruction... not in the same trite way that is used for virtually EVERY death and black metal band. No, this is different. This IS the sound of total world destruction. Never (in my opinion) has this concept been able to be achieved. Mayhem TRIED (although a fantastic effort)with their "Grand Declaration OF War" CD but, somehow fell short. Not Axis Of Perdition, no, they captured the sonic equivalent of the biblical rapture in full reverse... everything goes straight to hell. There is an unmatched black fury at work here that must be heard to be fully comprehended.
If I've so much piqued your interest with the few words I've written here, then you must hear it for yourself.......

This is quite possibly thee most crushing album in existence.The drum machine blast beats could split the earth to its firey core.Filthy black metal spite from the bowels of hell embelished with with dark ambience.Revell in the destruction.

like the sound of great sheets of metal pulled by the wind over the crumbling mortar of an abandoned factory the consumate sense of despair and futility that permeates this album is enough to send the weak willed running for the pills and razor blades. this is the black metal i always knew was possible. the typical judeo christian nonsense and pictures of somewhat homely naked goth girls ignored in favor of paeans to world collapse and urban decay. the programmed drums blast endlessly at inhuman speed, the vocals sound like an animal slowly bleeding to death as it chews its leg off in a futile attempt to escape from a beartrap, the noise/ambient parts rival anything to come out of that scene in ages and add gloriously to the sense of total and complete decay...brilliant. simply brilliant. when planes fall from the sky again, when the water supply is long since poisoned and weeds push up thru deserted streets...two things will survive. cockroaches and the axis of perdition. heil to the new kings of true black metal. welcome the end.

No mistake, this is an intense album. But I have to say that from the reviews that have been given, I was expecting something heavier. So up front - don't expect an album at the intensity of Anaal Nathrakh's opus Pandemonic Hyperblast. But hey, even Anaal Nathrakh can't sustain that level for an entire album.

So what can you expect? A lot of originality, a lot of melody. At the extreme end of metal there's a lot of riffage, but I have to say there's not much that's this melodic on the far side of Gothenburg and the NWOSDM. But this is definitely way on the far side. It should also be noted that the production quality is quite high, something else that is unusual for more extreme metal.

The album appears to be a concept piece, something along the lines of hell on earth, to put it simplistically. Samples conclude seemingly every other song, at times reminiscent of Rob Zombie, at times of Bruce Dickonson's Chemical Wedding: there are even shades of Ghostbusters on some. The vocals otherwise are of a fairly standard industrialised black metal sound, reasonably indecipherable for the most part and not unlike labelmates Anaal Nathrakh. They suit the album well.

The track 'Forms On The Other Side Of Silence' is worth mentioning as what I would describe as the lynchpin of the album. A mid-album track, its composition is of ambient industrial / noise as background to a Lovecraftian narrative. Its value is in the explanation the narrative conveys, its strong atmosphere, and the way it binds the album together into a cohesive whole. And yet, the album leaves me feeling that there is something more that could have been done here. A concept and sound that could have been more fully realised. But since I've not come across any such thing I find it unfair to mark them down for it. But it makes me intensely interested to see what Axis of Perdition produce next.

Refreshing. Not straight black metal. Not industrial. Something with style and a bit of thought (and pretty intense).

Okay, so I'm pretty sure 99% of you have never heard of this band or this album, but if you're in the least bit inclined toward black metal you should buy this today. Now I'm not talking about the newer, toned down stuff like Cradle Of Filth and Dimmu Borgir. I'm talking about the darker, less commerciably viable brand of Black Metal. This is the kind of music I imagine Satan would play if he wanted a soundtrack to the apocalypse. The vocals sound deranged and possessed and are some of the best I've ever heard. The guitars are the average downtuned, eerie tones trademark to black metal, however are much more interesting than the mundane, primitive 2 chord progressions alot of black metal bands use. This is also the one instance I think I've seen in which a drum machine actually works better than a human drummer. A human couldn't possibly flesh out beats this fast and constant. This is all topped off by an uncharacteristally good production unlike the barely audibly fuzz alot of black metal bands use. Buy this today, granted you may have to search a bit but it's worth the effort.