FREEZING BLOOD - Altar of Goat (FALLEN TEMPLE - CD 2014)
Ha,
I just spent last several hours listening to one melodic doom metal band, which
I was reviewing for another webzine… And now I decided to put on the CD, which
I got from Fallen Temple, to review it for Panzerfaust… and the musical
difference between these two CDs is just shocking hehe! And the Freezing Blood
album, which I am listening to now, sounds almost like a chaotic, relentless,
fierce, bestial attack, which wants to erase all pleasure and calmness, which
the doomy band delivered hehe! About the band I don’t really know much, as
“Altar of Goat” is their debut release and all information I have about them is
what I can find on Metal Archives. Which is obviously not much. But I can see
that Freezing Blood gathers some people from other quite well known underground
Polish acts like Mordhell, Moloch Letalis, Martwa Aura… So, there are no casual
people involved in the horde. And that’s good, because I can’t believe that
such music would be possible to be executed by someone, who’s not a maniacal
worshipper of the obscure metal and Satan! Someone like that would never be
able to create such atmosphere in his music or bring such devastation!
Yes,
Freezing Blood does all that! “Altar of Goat” do create the atmosphere of chaos
and obscurity. The music is damn bestial and violent and of course it may also
be considered as primitive noise, with harsh production, unlistenable riffs and
furious, screaming nonsense vokills. But that is an attitude, which only people
who’re not into such sounds will have. And those, who’re familiar with the
fierce attack of bands like Archgoat, Bestial Raids, Black Witchery and many,
many others like Teitanblood will surely praise Freezing Blood and understand
what such bands deliver. And certainly the entire 15 minutes of the demo is a
fuckin total devastation, desecration… great profanation! Of corpse “Altar of
Goat” is nothing new; Freezing Blood plays very much like the bands I mentioned
above, has similar song structures, riffs, tempos and vocals to some of them (even
their image, with hooded, corpsepainted figures, wearing spikes, chains, etc is
very typical)… but that’s not the point. I just worship not just the atmosphere
such music invokes, but also the straight forward attitude, great riffing,
diverse tempos – as there are many fast, chaotic parts, often interrupted by
slow, crushing motifs...
And
it all works damn awesome, for my taste! Love the powerful energy of this music,
which erupts when you just play it loud and when the chaos engulfs you… And a
lot of credit goes also for the production of “Altar of Goat”. I mean quite a
lot of similar bands have sound, which is below criticism, taking a shitty
rehearsal noise over something what can sound both raw, but also mighty and
powerful. Luckily, bands such as Bestial Raids and also Freezing Blood take the
better option. And this is why something like “Altar of Goat” crushes the
skulls, when is played loud. My neighbours don’t love it, I do. Killer stuff!
Oh, I must also say that I love the whole artwork and layout of the CD, awesome
job.
Standout
tracks: all are equally great!
Final
rate: 85/100
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