Azrael - Obdurate
I don’t know a whole lot about this band except that they are from Minnesota and that they are a three-piece (only two of them participated in the recording of this MCD, however) band that plays Black Metal. I’m not sure they are in with the NSBM scene, though the cover art suggests it. The cover art shows a picture of what appears to be some kind of swastika turned inverted cross kind of thing and the whole picture is pretty lame looking. It essentially looks like some kid’s art project from high school. Musically, this band is in serious need of a good engineer, as the sound on Obdurate is horrible. The bass is muffled and almost inaudible, the vocals are muffled and almost inaudible and the drumming is muffled and though it is audible, it is partially buried by the incredibly noisy guitars. Actually, I take that back. Only one of the guitars is incredibly noisy. The other one is muffled and almost inaudible. The noisy guitar sounds like a distorted chainsaw with all the bass taken out, and it is also the loudest thing on this MCD. I think there may be some kind of a Burzum thing going on behind the wall of white noise but it is hard to tell for sure. This could have sounded fairly good if someone at the studio knew what the fuck they were doing. My guess is that the band decided they wanted to sound “cult” and that sounding “cult” meant that their music had to sound like shit. The extremely noisy sound on that one guitar makes this MCD almost unlistenable. This band is now apparently signed to the Moribund Cult so hopefully this means that their next release will show how good this band really is. As it stands, this MCD just doesn’t do that.
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