(EDITOR'S NOTE: I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO THIS CD SINCE DECEMBER 2007, AND I HAD THOUGHT THEY WERE REVIEWED AND POSTED UP ON THIS SITE. BUT MY LAST COMPUTER WAS DAMAGED IN THE MIDDLE OF DECEMBER. THEREFORE I OBVIOUSLY HADN'T POSTED ANYTHING ABOUT IT. SO HERE'S THE REVIEW OF
THIS. TRUST ME ON THIS, I'M PISSED OFF.)
DODSFERD - Cursing Your Will To Live CD
I became a fan of this one man Black Metal project from Greece in early 2007 after I picked up the FUCKING YOUR CREATION CD. I started listening to it every morning for a couple of weeks. Extremely hate filled music is very important to get your attitude right before you go out to face the world. You see after really listening to his music, whether it's this one or his previous two. You realize that Wrath really is a nihilist who has total disdain for almost all humanity. And CURSING YOUR WILL TO LIVE is the epitome of hate. It simply does not hold back one second.
The CD opens with a simple guitar drone "All of Them Are Dead", no vocals just pure noise. But it's this noise which is key to opening up all of the rage and hostility on this CD. When you're angry, really angry, imagine what your brain waves are doing? Now place that into a musical form, yes a droning sound that's like a fuse burning till it reaches the powder to explode. And what follows next on "Hypocritic Shitfuckers Still Breathing" is the explosion. The song is traditional DODSFERD black and roll style and it hates twice as much. What follows lends more to older Black Metal style. "You Call It Resurrection; I Call It Fairytale for Human Parasites, Your Kind" is not just a simple theological disagreement on the christ resurrection. It's a full on blasting rebuke of everything involved in it. Wrath
continues his venom spewing attacks on "Failure Was Described As Religion, As Heresy". What makes this more than just a simple anti-religious rant is Wrath's vocals, which go from these harsh screams to some hate filled rasps. This is laid over a raw as fuck Black Metal uptempo groove.
"I Was Challenged to Enter the Gates of Blasphemy" is by far the most hate filled cut on here. It's eight minutes of screams and howling laid over a simple continuous rhythm. It's as if a man was being tortured by an inquisitor and never gave in. What follows is obviously a companion piece, "Under A Broken Cross", a poetic rant spoken/screamed/grunted over an ambient drone for six minutes. Listen to this song five or six times in a row but leave your humanity behind. Your thoughts will drift off to a place which is beyond mere contempt. Then you'll be shocked back into reality by what follows. "Staring at the Ashes of a Forsaken Kingdom" is a harsh rocker reminiscent of lower tier NWOBHM meets IMMORTAL. In fact the main reason I like DODSFERD is that they are the hybrid link between DARKTHONE's "Transilvanian
Hunger" and IMMORTAL's "Battles of the North". Wrath's vocals might make that opinion a stretch since they are of a higher screech. But musically on the title cut, especially since Wrath does the guitar and vocals, but has two highly Black Metal influenced session musicians on bass and drums which help this thing along.
As I'm listening to the title cut, all nine plus minutes of it, I must say that this CD is at the pinnacle of modern Black Metal. To use an arborist's term, the roots hold it in place. The trunk has given it the ability to rise above everything else that surrounds it. The branches have grown to an expansion of limitless proportions. But to look at it as just a sum of it's parts would be wrong. It's the complete structure that's all important. "Cursing Your Will To Live" is that complete structure. I'm writing this just as I listen to "Your Death, My Propitiation", which is pure blackened thrash. Yes there is no mercy to the lame fucks who have crawled into the Black Metal scene. The final cut, "I Kept Standing with Disgust" to me is an ode to that with it's death metal like blast of intense defiance.
Wow what a long review but a quick read for you. It has taken me close to four hours to review this CD. I believe we have a record. But anyway, this CD is the I AM AND I'M STILL HERE STANDING IN DEFIANCE OF ALL WHO OPPOSE ME, type of release that the weak ones bemoan. But us with the will of steel, crave.
MORIBUND CULT RECORDS
http://www.myspace.com/dodsferd
http://www.moribundcult.com
No comments:
Post a Comment