Judas Iscariot - Dethroned, Conquered and Forgotten
This is the sixth album by this Black Fucking Metal stalwart and as usual, Andy Harris (AKA Akhenaten, also the guy behind Breath of Night Records) has compromised nothing. This album is brutal, ugly and so raw that if it were a steak, it would still be mooing. The only thing I didn’t like on this release was the drum sound. They were a little too loud for my taste and the tone on them was pretty bad. I don’t know what happened with them because the rest of the instruments had a much better sound. Even with that minor detraction, I still enjoyed Dethroned, Conquered and Forgotten. The songs had a high ass-kickage factor and the atmosphere and feeling in the music is still more evil than 95% of the bands that call themselves Black Metal today. The music was a bit more complex than on previous releases, with the two-riff Von/ early Burzum/ early Graveland style has giving way to a bit more developed structures. Even with the more involved song structures in place, Judas Iscariot still is very effective in utilizing their riffs. This is a band that can do what few others can - beat two riffs into the floor for over five minutes and still have the song sound fucking great. Of all the bands out there in the Black Metal scene today, Judas Iscariot is probably the only band that hasn’t compromised a bit while still releasing excellent albums consistently.
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