HELL - Obedience - Promo MMXIII (Self financed MC 2013)
This is the second of two projects of Crystallis,
which he has sent me lately on tapes. Musically Hell is quite different to what
I have heard on Alcoholichrist’s “Sickness Addiction”. The whole tape titled
“Obedience - Promo MMXIII” contains four songs, plus my copy also have a new
bonus song. Anyway, I must say that while Alcoholichrist was utterly
depressive, harsh and misanthropic doomy black metal, Hell presents something
what I like even more. There are quite few moments, which make me think of the
classic Greek black metal scene, with such bands as Deviser, old Rotting
Christ, Necromantia, Varathron – and really Hell is quite close musically to these
cults, especially in the more melodic songs, such as “Ascending the Scales of
Belial” or truly phenomenal “Obedience”, which surely is the best song from
here, with a brilliantly possessing, memorable chorus. Hell definitely is more
oriented towards creating the dark atmosphere and damn! They’ve done it
perfectly, with these great riffs and more kind of whispering vocals. Yeah, I
truly like this material, it is short, but really good. These two songs, which
I mentioned above are probably my favourites, but “Submersive Emotion” is also
excellent, with harsher and more aggressive mood, maybe kind of similar to some
Shining stuff, so more in the Scandinavian sound… I must also say that
sometimes I feel like there are similarities to new Greek BM scene with Acherontas
and Serpent Noir, to bring just these two examples. Hell presents the classic
approach towards the black metal, but what must be pointed out is that the
production is not that primitive, garage, where you can barely hear anything,
and that is good, because otherwise you would just loose so much… Luckily it is
not the case here and I can truly say that “Obedience” is just great demo and
Hell is a must have for all the maniacs of underground black metal.
Final rate: 80/100
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