Cult of Daath - The Grand Torturers of Hell

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 March 20 2008 at 11:28:57 PM

Brought back into circulation by Deathgasm Records, The Grand Torturers of Hell finds Cult of Daath in one of their earlier incarnations, declaring war against nuance, fragmenting de rigueur notions of Black Metal orthodoxy with a relentlessly fundamental take on the genre, “waxing poetic” about blood and vomit; flesh and bone; thirst, hate, and lust. In proper stride, drums, guitars, and vocals complement—and befoul—these obsessions, fighting against fluidity, stomping and slashing through completely washed out structures. The duo of Culggath Immortum and Wargoat Obscurum erect a stinking shit pit of sound via guitar, bass, drums, and voice. Vocals are retched forth with enlarged and severed tongue. Words are hissed, gargled, bubbled to the lips as black blood. Thin hi-hats and rumpled paper snare burst and pop around argumentative guitar lines. Black leather, non-life yielding coitus, stone gardens, collared nymphets: this is the de facto soundtrack for these impressions. And for a recording to so effortlessly encapsulate the whole of Black Metal iconography is a rare feat. Cult of Daath is the proper conduit and The Grand Torturers of Hell is their Gospel.

[Stewart Voegtlin]