DAKHMA - Astiwihad-Zohr (GODZ OV WAR - MC 2016)
Dakhma is another new band
that I was introduced to recently. And another one, which really risen my
interest and managed to convince me with their music. I didn’t know their debut
album “Passageways to Daena (The Concomitant Blessings of Putrescing Impurity)”
and I went straight to the cassette tape “Astiwihad-Zohr” (released by Godz ov
War Productions), but both were released the same year (2015), so I guess it
doesn’t matter which of these two releases you will hear first.
But to be honest, at first
listen I was repulsed by this EP totally. Maybe it was due to the conditions in
which I was playing this tape – which were rather inappropriate for this sort
of music and definitely I played it way too quiet. But when I forced myself to
return to “Astiwihad-Zohr” and this time played it louder and on better stereo,
my impression has changed. For better, of course. I’m still far from jumping in
joy for hearing the best shit ever, I can easily say that I’ve heard many, many
better bands recently (fuckin Temple Below!!!)… but Dakhma is not bad also!
First you have to break
through the chaotic, utterly raw and savage sound that Dakhma has. Their ultimately
primitive and abhorrent production is the biggest problem I personally had (and
still have) with Dakhma, as it often ends up with music sounding like
unreadable and unlistenable wall of repulsive noise and chaos. Luckily, somewhere
behind this you can catch some really fuckin awesome riffs and songs that make
great impression. Definitely I like Dakhma music when it’s played in slower
tempos, because this is when it is the most powerful and really heavy. Sometimes
in the fast sections you will have troubles finding out what the hell is going
on. But definitely if you’re looking for totally vicious, violent and primitive
bestial black / death metal, then this rabid music will work for you well. It surely
is no bullshit stuff, do not expect to hear anything nice or memorable. And with
such brilliant songs like “Spirit (From the Plane)”, Dakhma shows that they
have a lot of potential. This song presents some surprising harmonious and even
doomy parts, all mixed up with outburst of pure, hateful noise.
With four songs on “Astiwihad-Zohr”,
this EP is 27 minutes long, with average length of songs around seven minutes. And
I have to say that sometimes this music has almost hypnotic influence, you can
feel drowning in cacophonous maelstrom, begging for mercy from this sonic
violence haha!
Standout track: “Spirit (From
the Plane)”
Final rate: 69/100
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