Bahimiron - Pure Negativism in Allegiance with Self-Wreckage
March 20 2008 at 11:18:32 PM
Texas' pre-eminent scribe of mass murder and self-mutilation via the legendary zine, Where’s my skin? strikes again, animating from open wounds to a weapon. The blood-pact: Bahimiron members Blaash, Jenoside, Krag Dagon, and Grimlord upset the ever-growing trend of Orthodox Black Metal with a show of plain and ugly vandalism forcing itself upon the mind and soul. Voices split the air as fine daggers, responded to by effects-slackened gloom—ghostly moans of agony trapped within reality collapsing reverb and masticating jaw formed of war-drums and discordant guitar honed in the style of early Gorgoroth. To think it one-dimensional would be a mistake. The album demonstrates a finer grasp of melody and mediates between this perfunctory motion and dirges that wind toward a literal sounding death rattle. But don't expect anything more dynamic than that, or even to last through it entirely (a whole thirty minutes). What's being presented, after all, is nothing short of the great undoing.
[Todd DePalma]
Bahimiron
Pure Negativism in Allegiance with Self-Wreckage
2006
Aura Mystique
http://www.auramystique.com
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