This is a review of a double split album between United kingdom's Baalberith, France's Loup Noir, Netherland's RAN and Iceland's Azoic and Vabadi called "The Antichristian Symphonies which was released in 2013 by Satanath Records and we will start off the review with Baalberith a band that has been featured before in this zine and plays a satanic mixture of black and death metal.
Their side of the split starts out with ritualistic spoken word parts and evil sounding synths and after the intro bells start to kick in before going into a heavy musical direction that also utilizes a great amount of melodic guitar leads and when the music speeds up a great amount of blast beats are utilized and the vocals are mostly grim black metal screams ans they also mix the synths in n with the heavier parts.
Throughout their side of the recording there is a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and the vocals also get depressive at times and the riffs and leads also use a great amount of melody and the music also brings in a great amount of death metal influences along with some growls being utilized at times and one of their songs is long and epic in length and one track also brings in a brief use of clean playing and they close their side of the split with Woods of Ypres and Mayhem covers, the production sounds very heavy while the lyrics cover Satanism and Anti Christian themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Baalberith and if you are a fan of satanic black and death metal, you should check out t heir side of the split. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Quest For Satan" and "God Delusion".
Next up is Loup Noir a solo project that plays a pagan form of black metal.
His side of the split starts out with a very raw and epic pagan/black metal sound along with some depressive screams a few seconds later and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them and the vocals also get very grim at times and when the music speeds up a small amount of blast beats can be heard.
When solos and leads are utilized they are done in a very melodic fashion and a great portion of his tracks are very long and epic in length while some of the riffs also use melody and you can also hear clean singing chants, clear guitars and spoken word parts at times and the music also gets very atmospheric at times and their is also a brief use of acoustic guitars, the production sounds very raw and old school while the lyrics cover Paganism themes.
In my opinion Loup Noir are a very great sounding pagan/black metal solo project and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out his side of the split. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Errance" and "Requiem".
Next up is Azoic a band that plays a modern style of occult black/death metal.
Their side of the split starts out with a very fast and technical black metal sound that also uses deep growls and blast beats and the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and you can also hear death metal influences in all of the tracks and atmospheric elements in the music at times.
Some of the riffs also use melodies and some songs also bring in clean singing and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful to them and the music also gets very brutal at times and there is a great amount of talent and skill in the way the musicians play their instruments, the production sounds very powerful while the lyrics cover Occultism themes.
In my opinion Azoic are a very great sounding atmospheric occult black/death metal and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out their side of the split. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Apeiron" and "Srirituphysics".
Next up is RAN a band that plays a mixture of black and thrash metal.
Their side of the split starts out with a heavy thrash sound along with some melodies and blast beats and a few seconds later grim black metal screams are added into the music and the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them.
You can hear both first and second wave black metal elements in the bands musical style along with a great amount of raw aggression and the solos and leads bring in even more of an old school metal style and some songs also bring in the raw energy of punk, the production sounds very raw and heavy while the lyrics cover chaos, war, and hell.
In my opinion RAN are a very great sounding mixture of black metal and thrash, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Thrash Black" and "Death Divine".
Closing the split is Vabodi a band that plays a raw mixture of black and doom metal.
Their side of the split starts out with acoustic guitar playing and after a few seconds melodic guitar leads and a raw black metal sound is added onto their side of the recording with the faster sections bringing in blast beats and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them and both of there tracks are very long and epic in length.
There is a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and the slower sections also mix in a lot of doom metal influences and you can also hear a touch of post metal in the music at times and both of their tracks are all instrumental with no vocals or song writing ever being used while the production sounds very dark yet powerful at the same time.
In my opinion Vabodi are a very great sounding mixture of post black metal and doom and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACK "Woe bearer".
In conclusion I feel this is a very great sounding compilation and covers a variety of many different black metal styles from black/death/, pagan black metal, and post black metal, and if you a re into all those genres, you should check out this double album set. 8 out of 10.
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