Demoncy - Enthroned Is the Night
This is the first full-length Demoncy album since 2003’s Empire of the Fallen Angel, which is quite a hiatus. Ixithra, the sole member of Demoncy, has always had a knack for creating dark and evil music, and Enthroned Is the Night is definitely a dark and evil album. Though considered Black Metal, Demoncy has always had more in common with Death Metal in terms of style. When you consider that Ixithra was part of Profanatica during the early days of the USBM scene, that isn’t a surprise. Back when Death Metal was all the rage and bands like Morbid Angel, Deicide, Death and Cannibal Corpse were getting huge, there were only three US Black Metal bands that anyone was really aware of (Profanatica, Necrovore and, after Ixithra left Profanatica, Demoncy). All of them had a more brutal, Death Metal oriented sound. This is one aspect of Demoncy that hasn’t changed. This is heavy and brutal. One of the things Ixithra has been doing over time is combining his Dark Ambient project, Profane Grace, with Demoncy. There are a number of “interlude” tracks on Enthroned Is the Night that could be Profane Grace songs (or parts of them). Those are the eeriest and also the strongest tracks on this album. The Metal parts are dark and brutal, but the atmosphere on the interlude tracks stands out the most. The only weakness that I found on this album is one that plagues every band that ever wrote a song in the key of “brutal.” The tonal range that Demoncy operates in is very tight, resulting in songs that are brutal but similar sounding. If it wasn’t for the atmospheric stuff breaking things up, I could see how most would view Enthroned Is the Night as a compilation of ten different versions of the same track. Even with that, this is an album that is getting a lot of play on my stereo.
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Kalashnyx said:
This album fucking kills!
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