Nihilsm are a band from Greece that plays a very aggressive and dissonant form of black metal and this is a review of their self released 2021 album "Cataclysme Vers I'Ascendance".
A very fast and raw sound starts off the album along with a great amount of blast beats and tremolo picking which also gives the music more of a raw feeling. When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are done in a very dark style and the vocals are mostly angry yet high pitched sounding black metal screams.
At times the music also gets very dissonant sounding while the songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. Clean playing can also be heard in some parts of the recording along with some soundscapes and synths also being utilized on a few tracks and all of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them.
The solos and leads also having their melodic and dissonant moments along with the riffs also adding in a decent amount of melody as well as a couple of the tracks also being instrumentals and as the album progresses a brief use of spoken word parts can also be heard, a brief use of children singing is also added on the closing song. The production sounds very raw and heavy while the lyrics cover Existential Nihilism and Cosmicism themes.
In my opinion Nihilism are a very great sounding aggressive and dissonant black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "" and VI'. 8 out of 10.
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