Hadopelagial
Hadopelagial
Satanath Records
Hailing from Germany - Hadopelagial. Hell, I have to write that this is how you make an essential black metal album as a duo. The line up for Hadopelagial is C.C. who is responsible for all music and mastering of songs and Ghoul who did all vocals.
This album is a hateful satanic black metal record. I seldom praise programmed drums in music but this band fit every beat into tracks nearly perfectly. Kick drums, blast beats, cymbals, I think that production and tuning of it is very to the point - detailed, technical by which music takes you by the storm and it almost made me think that songs were played by real drummer. The album is very fast, more methodical (they knew what they wanted to achieve) than spontaneous (they did not let mistakes sound them messy). As for me, this album sounds professional in given recording conditions.
The band let themselves for some space in songs, seeking for musical craft in guitar heaviness, however, most of music is very fast, songs have freezing cold riffs and mean black metal vocals (...Satan, Lucifer in a spotlight...) as you would expect them to be. You could say that it is more merciless version of Norwegian black metal but twice harsher. There is no wasting time for melodies here, it`s raw, punishing black metal, hard to survive if you new to the genre - like a winter in wilderness that turns you into human stalactite.
I think songs sound interestingly overall but I have those 2-3 tracks that I like to listen to the most. For instance, Amunre is a fast, grim, pure evil black metal track with some catchy guitar rhythms that I was less expecting to hear. The other song is Leviathan, where in the beginning, the band accents bass lines, mix it with various drumming arrangements and swarming guitar riffs, which forecast another inevitable black metal storm in this album that is coming musically, and it does...Fast, blistering and ferocious riffs, blast beats, the band just plays quality songs with little surprise in the end of the album which is song Dana – just more diversity in songs of the band and exploration of band`s musical boundaries. Solid, wild black metal release!
This album is a hateful satanic black metal record. I seldom praise programmed drums in music but this band fit every beat into tracks nearly perfectly. Kick drums, blast beats, cymbals, I think that production and tuning of it is very to the point - detailed, technical by which music takes you by the storm and it almost made me think that songs were played by real drummer. The album is very fast, more methodical (they knew what they wanted to achieve) than spontaneous (they did not let mistakes sound them messy). As for me, this album sounds professional in given recording conditions.
The band let themselves for some space in songs, seeking for musical craft in guitar heaviness, however, most of music is very fast, songs have freezing cold riffs and mean black metal vocals (...Satan, Lucifer in a spotlight...) as you would expect them to be. You could say that it is more merciless version of Norwegian black metal but twice harsher. There is no wasting time for melodies here, it`s raw, punishing black metal, hard to survive if you new to the genre - like a winter in wilderness that turns you into human stalactite.
I think songs sound interestingly overall but I have those 2-3 tracks that I like to listen to the most. For instance, Amunre is a fast, grim, pure evil black metal track with some catchy guitar rhythms that I was less expecting to hear. The other song is Leviathan, where in the beginning, the band accents bass lines, mix it with various drumming arrangements and swarming guitar riffs, which forecast another inevitable black metal storm in this album that is coming musically, and it does...Fast, blistering and ferocious riffs, blast beats, the band just plays quality songs with little surprise in the end of the album which is song Dana – just more diversity in songs of the band and exploration of band`s musical boundaries. Solid, wild black metal release!
Tracklist:
1 Hadopelagial
2 Helios
3 Leviathan
4 The Cosmic Ocean
5 For The New Path
6 Amunre
7 Return Of The Black Death
8 Dana
1 Hadopelagial
2 Helios
3 Leviathan
4 The Cosmic Ocean
5 For The New Path
6 Amunre
7 Return Of The Black Death
8 Dana
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 08.11.2020
Added: 08.11.2020