The first part of a trilogy by legendary Californian act Von. Fifty-five minutes of icy, painful, misanthropic and desolate Aural Darkness.
Dark Gods: Seven Billion Slaves (slaves, aren’t we all on this overcrowded Mater Terra) breathes the essence of Underground Occultism, rather primal and primitive, very old styled, yet above all: hypnotic, mesmerizing and eerie in every aspect. It’s melodious, Von’s material, but of a mostly uncomfortable kind for sure. It’s the same sleazy shit like the past, with a comparable sound (raw and eerie) and a comparable approach (mystic and evil) to the past (remember 1992’s Satanic Blood [one of my all-time favourite demos!]).
I am sure many will not agree when I say that this kind of material stands for the quasi-historical, truthful essence of sonic Goat Worship, but Mister Venien and his team did a thing that will be appreciated a lot by those who like to caress their eardrums with coal-black no-nonsense simplicity!
One remark only: several riffs are way too similar…