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Wolfsschrei-Torture_Of_A_Human_Soul-CDEP-FLAC-2006-CATARACT
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ARTIST : Wolfsschrei STOREDATE : 00-00-2006
ALBUM : Torture Of A Human Soul RIPDATE : 01-16-2015
YEAR : 2006 RUNTIME : 22:08 min
GENRE : Black Metal LANGUAGE : English
LABEL : Raging Bloodlust Records GRABBER : EAC Secure
SOURCE : CD EP ENCODER : FLAC 1.2.1
QUALITY : 1099kbps Avg 44.1kHz 2 channels SIZE : 182.9MB
URL : http://tinyurl.com/k2sn49g TRACKS : 3 Files
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01 Innermost Scenario 6:19
02 Torture Of A Human Soul 8:05
03 Lost In Void 7:44
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22:08 min
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│ After listening to this about a dozen times and desperately trying │
│ to start a review for it, I've come to a certain conclusion about │
│ "Torture of a Human Soul": this is exactly what black metal sounds │
│ like today. Not a specific style of black metal- not a │
│ French-sounding band, a Darkthrone clone, anything like that- but a │
│ sort of aggregate of black metal's various styles and sounds │
│ congealed into a whole. People ask for primers on the black metal │
│ genre and others give them advice and suggestions, usually in the │
│ canon of classic black metal albums. Wolfsschrei, on the other hand, │
│ actually sounds like what we know as Black Metal these days. It is │
│ what you hear when you think of those words in your head. It helps │
│ as well that it's quite good. │
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│ Wolfsschrei plays a German style of black metal that really just │
│ forms an average of other styles of black metal. The riffs are │
│ mostly tremolo-based and fluctuate between a Germanic style of │
│ melody and a somewhat atonal, Darkthrone-style crunching dissonance, │
│ both tempered with an almost depressive, rainy sort of musical │
│ texture. Drums are simple and straightforward- slow blasts, │
│ rock-based depressive sections, and simple fills, while vocals are a │
│ straightforward screech you've heard a thousand times before. │
│ Wolfsschrei's music tends to hum and throb with a bleary, modern │
│ sense of energy, distorted and static to the point of an almost │
│ complete lack of identity- yet that somehow works. Wolfsschrei's │
│ music isn't so much meant to be a statement of identity and style so │
│ much as a very immediate, present sense of what black metal is at a │
│ certain moment- which paradoxically makes it reflect the genre │
│ better than nearly anything else. │
│ │
│ From moment to moment this music has an immediate, attacking energy, │
│ where every note seems to replace the one before it rather than lead │
│ into a narrative whole. The riffs are intense and engaging, but very │
│ fast, intense, and somewhat intentionally shallow- they're melodic, │
│ but they don't lead to some great understanding or revelation. They │
│ ride off the insistent texture of thrash beats and sluggish │
│ depressive passages without really meaning much more than what they │
│ immediately are. While "Torture of a Human Soul" is an overtly │
│ shallow piece of music, what it lacks in depth it more than makes up │
│ for by knowing its limits and functioning as a wonderful, sort of │
│ adolescently spirited slab of fast, engaging black metal that exists │
│ merely to exist and nothing more. │
│ │
│ If you're seeking something brilliant and classic, this is not it. │
│ However, Wolfsschrei's music seems almost more inherently relevant │
│ due to its total and intentional irrelevancy. "Torture of a Human │
│ Soul" is going to last forever simply because it was never built to │
│ last- it's black metal to the core, and I would rather listen to │
│ this than nearly anything else much of the time. │
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│ Mini-album, thus again tagged CDEP. │
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