Nixil are a US black metal band and this is their second album.
From the Wound Spilled Forth Fire presents us with 43 minutes of black metal that is intimately acquainted with a darker side of the style that’s both vicious and mood-rich.
The promo blurb states that From the Wound Spilled Forth Fire is influenced by acts such as Rotting Christ, Blut Aus Nord, and Mayhem, and this sets the scene nicely for Nixil’s second album.
Nixil’s black metal is contemporary and sharp, while still drawing from the older incarnations of the style. The band’s material is infectious, offering a virulent hymn that’s easy to slip into as it unfolds with malefic grace.
Nixil’s music is esoteric and dark, fusing the core blackened hostility of the style with otherworldly atmosphere, cosmic depth, and atypical songwriting. It manifests as a deep stain on reality, spreading its darkness insidiously, with uncommon presence. Wrapped in a shroud of abyssal bleakness and steeped in arcane lore, From the Wound Spilled Forth Fire twists and turns with labyrinthine intensity. Nixil’s mystical depths are cloaked in ominous auras and ritualistic dissonance, delivering a sermon of malevolence to an unsuspecting world unprepared for the end times that it heralds. Yet theirs is a message to be embraced, one that promises to loosen the shackles of oppression and create a sanctuary in the darkness for the music’s adherents.
From the Wound Spilled Forth Fire is a record that impresses with its obvious grasp of mood and its atmospheric presence, yet it is over time that its message is fully realised. Once it has its claws into you, it won’t let go. Spend some time in Nixil’s dark realm, and see if you want to leave again or not.
Highly recommended for connoisseurs of the dark blackened arts.
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