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'Macabre' Review door Archaic Magazine:
http://www.archaic-magazine.com/article.php?aid=45870
Written by Yulon Zhu on Thursday 11 December, 2008. Last updated on Thursday 11 December, 2008
Sometimes the typical unpolished, edged sound of black metal with ear-scraping fuzz and tunnel vocals can make black metal bands sound like carbon-copies of each other. So, it’s always good to find a band like Yawgmoth that goes above and beyond this tried and true method, including the bruising, hailing sound so familiar to black metalheads, while also instilling subtle, but winning melodies and meter deviations. Formerly known as Onrust, Dutch black metal act Yawgmoth release their first full-length, “Macabre” to solidify their existence in the underground.
First to the slaughter, “A Red Sun Rises” opens with a piercing, hair-raising, heart-attack causing orchestration, fading into a shattering, old school bruising of black metal. The vocals, the drums, the bass and the guitars kick in with a simple, addicting melody as the fretting causes an electrical storm. The vocals are screams and growls courtesy of Aegonem, acting as what could be an homage to the fact that many black metal bands started off playing death metal. The distant and distinct “A Murder to Change the World” has a catchy, bitter and dim-lit melody. The song is varied, going from slow and steady to a more vigorous, almost folky, pounding pace. It is songs like “A Murder to Change the World,” that ingrains a band into the listener’s memory and is sure to be a favorite off of this album. With less of a gloomy touch, the crescendo theme is continued on “Of Death and Destruction.” Here, you’ll get more “ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta” as the music is faster and more blast-beat filled, making this track go by a lot quicker; not that you’d want it to. On “Nevelnacht,” all of the techniques of gloom and doom, tempo changes, vocal differentiations and goose-bump openers are used. It stands out not simply due to its nine-minute length, but because it provides an overview of what Yawgmoth do and do well.
It’s always fun to hear recognizable music that stands apart from the crowd. It’s hard to find uniqueness in this pool of mediocre, unoriginal groups getting together without understanding the impact they could have on the overall census on what the state of modern metal is. Yawgmoth are the exception, being singular in their music, despite the simplicity of their sound and obvious inspiration in the way black metal is produced; raw, unclean and with all of the crookedness and inflections it comes with. Let’s hope these guys don’t wait another three years to get their next release ready and available.
Interview:
http://www.archaic-magazine.com/article.php?aid=45898
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