Judas Iscariot - To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding
Judas Iscariot is one of the few “Grim” Black Metal bands that I can stomach listening to repeatedly. If any band captures the “old” spirit of Black Fucking Metal, this is it. The music and the vocals on To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding are just fucking cold. You can just feel the nihilism and hatred in the unholy sound coming from your speakers and the atmosphere totally reminds me of how it felt to hear Burzum for the very first time. The production - especially the drum sound - is much improved over the last album and one thing about this CD that I really like is the fact that the guitar sound is razor sharp. You can hear every note perfectly. Most bands in the Grim Black Metal genre use horrid sound to hide the fact that their playing is very sloppy. If you play fast enough and have rough enough sound, you can hide sloppy playing most of the time, but Judas Iscariot has never had to do that. Even though there is an “error” left on this album, it detracts nothing from the music itself. The flaw had to do with a damaged master tape and could have been digitally repaired but I respect Akhenaten’s decision to leave it in to give you Judas Iscariot in its pure, unadulterated form. My favorite track is probably “In the Valley of Death, I Am Their King” because of the keyboard’s additional atmosphere. This is a band that doesn’t need keyboards to develop an atmosphere, but when the keys are used, they do nothing but enhance the sound and feeling. This album is just fucking evil, the way Black Metal was meant to be.
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