Black Curse are a US black/death metal band and this is their second album.
Following on from 2020’s hideously good Endless Wound, comes the 45-minute monstrosity that is Burning in Celestial Poison. Featuring five tracks that are mostly far longer than their predecessors, Black Curse have unleashed a severe statement of malevolent intent with their new record.
Burning in Celestial Poison blurs the lines between black and death metal, delivering a war metal attack that’s withering. Although the two primary aspects of the music are given ample time to bleakly fester, it’s the black metal side that’s more ascendant this time around.
Burning into Celestial Poison is an album of pure darkness forced into lengthy tracks that drip with blackened hatred. The songs are lightless entities that exist to pulverise and murder. It’s a feral black/death assault on the senses that’s intimidating and foul. Filled to the brim with bestial intensity, corrupt doom depravity, and sheer apocalyptic venom, this album is aural terror given form.
The songwriting is shapeless in its directed violence. The compositions are longer and more involved than those of the debut album. Although there is instant appeal to be had here and there, the music is less-instant and more harshly atmospheric. There is a greater focus on smothering the listener in a terrifying immersive experience than in selecting for killer riffs or vocal hooks, (for example).
Black Curse have evolved into a nightmarish predator that cares only for mayhem and chaos. This is music for adherents of blackened extremity most foul. If you can survive its caustic embrace and are willing to submit to its horrors multiple times, it will work its malignant magic upon you insidiously, blossoming like a spreading virulence.
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been sitting on my wishlist waiting for a serious listen. Cant wait. Great review as always M/