This is the third album of Black Metal from Swedish band Nefandus.
After enjoying their previous EP Your God Is A Ghost I was looking forward to hearing the next chapter in their development.
The first track starts out slow and sinuous, uncoiling slowly like a snake charged with lethal energy and ready to kill. The entire album has the feeling of something best left undisturbed, with a brooding malevolence bleeding from every unnatural pore.
Dark melodies are leaked out of a cold vacuum into a warm world entirely unprepared for what they herald. The menace and antagonism is tangible and each song brings this threat closer to reality.
The album name is strong and apt, for it does sound like reality is being assaulted from without, and the thin membrane that separates this world from the next is being slowly eroded to let something through. Nobody but Nefandus can say what will happen when the wall finally falls, but judging by these harbingers it won’t be anything good.
So let the hymns of hopelessness that Nefandus have come to spread into your life, but hide behind the sofa while you listen as this is not for the weak and you may not survive the sermon.
Harken!
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