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 March 13 2009 at 11:56:28 PM



Ritual nigh! Recently relocated compositional necromancers Negative Plane will brave the plastic and profane with a show in San Francisco and the City of Angels on April 10 and 11 respectively. Expect entrancing, near-flawless execution and general bad vibes as the Plane plays overly larded bills with lots of lesser bands who would do better donning sarongs and serving the gents fried chicken and buckets of gin and tonics instead of staining the stage with inadequacy.

Negative Plane’s sole recoding, Et in Saecula Saeculorum, released via The Ajna Offensive in what seems like eons ago, extrapolates on a phrase cribbed from the Order of the Blessed Trinity – And in the Ages of Ages – and transliterates it for those compelled 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. 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 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.

Despite inhuman consumption, I fondly recall the majority of Negative Plane’s opening slot for Watain in Atlanta. Extraordinary focus, preterite structure and execution, little to no visual pretension: Nothing to fucking sneeze at. Hope for more of the same. Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Negative Plane plays San Francisco’s Thee Parkside on 4.10.09, with support from Horn of Dagoth, Passive Aggressive, and Vietus Mortuus. Doors open at nine p.m. $10 gets you in. L.A.’s The Black Castle gets a taste on 4.11.09, with support from Nuclear Desecration, Dog Latin Extraordinaires Sanguis Imperem, and others. $15 gets you in.

[Stewart Voegtlin]
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