Haemoth - Satanik Terrorism
This album should be called Satanik Hearing Damage because that’s exactly what it is. Satanik Terrorism has my nomination for the absolutely worst production on a Black Metal album ever. After a rather standard keyboard intro, the torture begins. I don’t mean that in a good way, either. In a very literal sense, all you hear is the sound of someone hitting a cymbal over and over again. Every now and then, you hear a riff or a transition, but 99% of the time, all you’re hearing is this constant “ding-ding-ding-ding-ding” of said cymbal being whacked. It quite literally drowns out just about everything else. The guitar parts could be composed of one single chord being played over and over again and you’d never fucking know it because you can’t make out any chord changes underneath the barrage of “dings.” Who the fuck produced this and why? Someone spent a bunch of money recording and pressing this abomination and nobody had the brains to stop and say, “hey, maybe it would be better if we lowered that one particular cymbal a bit so we can hear the guitar (or anything else, for that matter)?” You would get better use out of your money by wiping your ass with it.
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