Negatve Plane - Et in Saecula Saeculorum
March 20 2008 at 11:54:08 PM
Et in Saecula Saeculorum: And in Ages of Ages—forever, a phrase cribbed from the Order of the Blessed Trinity and transliterated for those that choose to walk with the Beast. Before the church misappropriated the Latin, the Romans were utilizing the saecula to mark the age—and as an excuse to engage their darker sides with much wine and sex. Florida’s Negative Plane isn’t an ensemble prone to shy away from the macrocosmic, as they work from the recording title into consideration of the universe as void, slinking into the frame as voices take up in song. Drowned tones fall from rafters, their descent enunciated by tumbling bells—the Sabbatic odor. The music that follows is as timeless as the lyrical concepts frontman Nameless Void struggles with. A peculiar and riveting amalgam of Death and Black Metal, Negative Plane pays homage to prior denizens of the Sunshine State, all while fashioning a perplexing strain of music reliant upon guitar work delivered in a classical and nearly antiquarian style. Vocals and even percussion are rendered hallucinatory, cloaked in flange, hurled as spit-filled howls into pitch canyons. Drummer Bestial Devotion is cut from the same cloth as Possessed’s Mike Sus, shirking the shackles of time-keeping and engaging mimetic games with Nameless Void’s guitar. Riffs and fills as locked talons, fallen war dead where corpse upon corpse is heaped in confusion. The “Death Mass” is given a literal rendering as coda: a church organ empties its lungs in a slow emphysemic wheeze. “Trance of the Undead” takes up the keys again in limbo—a tarantella for trampling the cross. Heralding of the “Advent of the Beast” seals the hole, ushering in the time of reckoning as we began: Lo, the house is frenzied with the Lord and the roof revels Bacchant-like. Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.
[Stewart Voegtlin]
Negative Plane
Et in Saecula Saeculorum
2006
The Ajna Offensive
http://www.theajnaoffensive.com
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