It’s not a secret anymore, I guess, to admit my passionate devotion to the Moribund Cult (read: Moribund Records). Only once in a while I do not get that ecstatically horny by a release via this Washington-based top-label, and that was, unfortunately, the case with Bleeding Fist’s 2011-EP Devil’s Ferox … It was not bad, but compared with former material by this Slovenian band, I thought it was a step back (see update August 7th 2011 within the Archive-tab).
To celebrate their tenth anniversary, Bleeding Fist release a compilation with unreleased material that was recorded after Devil’s Ferox … It consists of material mainly comparable to any of the band’s former efforts. This means that this album consists of tracks that breathe an unholy, blaspheme, misanthropic stench of deep-earthed sulphuric stench (jummie, I do like that smell, figuratively). It’s thrashy, occult, primitive, stripped-down Black Filth Metal with a pronounced Second Wave-attitude and a subtle First Wave-arrogance. Once again, it lacks of creativity and identity, but the average ‘quality’ of the compositions is stronger than ever before. The production might give the whole a slightly inferior sound, even though this ‘underground sound’ might fit well to the nihilistic compositions, yet at the same time I wouldn’t / couldn’t appreciate a polished production either (at all!) for this stuff reeks of putrefaction, sonically as well.
Consider it an imaginary mixture of Bathory, Lugubrum, Svartsyn, Nebel, Enthroned, Von, Gorgoroth and Dissection.