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/:: Artist :: Infernal War ::\
:: Album :: Axiom ::
:: Year :: 2015 ::
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:: . Genre :: Black Metal Source :: CDDA . ::
:: Label :: Agonia Records R.date :: 05.05.2015 ::
_::__ Cat.nr. :: ARCD137 Size :: 90,7 MB __::_
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..: Bitrate :: 295kbps : .
. Quality :: 44,1kHz/Joint-Stereo .
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Website :: https://www.facebook.com/infernalwarofficial
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:: 01. Coronation 04:42 ::
:: 02. Militant Hate Church 03:17 ::
:: 03. Into Dead Soil 04:01 ::
:: 04. Paradygmat 03:14 ::
:: 05. Nihil Prayer 04:17 ::
:: 06. The Parallel Darkness 03:15 ::
:: 07. Transfigure 03:29 ::
:: 08. Eater of Hope 03:40 ::
:: 09. Camp 22 04:01 ::
:: 10. No Forgiveness 03:29 ::
:: 11. Axiom 05:30 ::
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:: Infernal War have truly taken their time with following up ::
:: the acclaimed Redesekration record back in 2007, although ::
:: if you were paying attention you would have caught the EP ::
:: and split they released in 2009 and 2010 respectively, ::
:: which together had enough material for another album. ::
:: Still, five years after even that last stirring from their ::
:: camp, AXIOM is an album I wanted to really deliver. ::
:: ::
:: Even compared to songs like 'Spears of Negation' from ::
:: Conflagrator, which was itself on a whole new level in ::
:: terms of ferocity, this new album is the angriest, harshest ::
:: and most unstoppable thing these guys have ever recorded. A ::
:: lot of the members have been involved in bands like ::
:: Voidhanger and Iperyt, who aside from a song here or a riff ::
:: there I'm not really taken with; this to me sounds like ::
:: what these guys do best. Don't expect much of the slower ::
:: tempos or textural atmospheres from the three songs on ::
:: Transfigurations here either - those influences are left in ::
:: 2010, with the exception of the doomlike intro to the ::
:: appropriately titled 'Transfigure'. I actually enjoyed the ::
:: material on that split as much as anything else the band ::
:: has done, but this denser and more pissed off version of ::
:: the style on Redesekration becomes the band well indeed, so ::
:: it isn't a problem. ::
:: ::
:: As soon as 'Coronation' begins the militant audio slaughter ::
:: is unleashed and it just doesn't stop. Stormblast's drums ::
:: are as precise and blisteringly fast as ever. And when ::
:: those rapid guitars begin to buzz back in after the slower ::
:: part on the opener you realise this album damn well means ::
:: business, and nobody's getting out alive. Inspired stuff. ::
:: The wailing death metal solos that erupt across the band's ::
:: music - like so many hot orange sparks from a road surface ::
:: cutting machine - are still around too. ::
:: ::
:: I feel like overall there is a much less "military" vibe ::
:: than on Redesekration and Conflagrator - those records had ::
:: a feel akin to Impiety's barbaric but highly precise ::
:: machine gun battering, while AXIOM is more like an ::
:: outpouring of pure hot blooded violence and ill will. ::
:: Naturally there are still tracks - like 'Eater of Hope' ::
:: that make you think of nothing more than dry ice, dim ::
:: lighting, chains and bullet belts and all the rest of it, ::
:: so that kommando vibe is still there. This album is still ::
:: basically about having your face melted and bones broken by ::
:: unconscionable amounts of high-velocity blast beats and ::
:: catchy but nihilistic guitar riffs - this band just write ::
:: songs well enough to give those blasts a way to be as ::
:: exciting as possible. ::
:: ::
:: Many of the songs are marked by some very, very nice ::
:: pounding mid-paced bits, or have something else that gives ::
:: it the exact context and vibe it needs - brief as they are. ::
:: 'Coronation' and 'Into Dead Soil' are particularly good ::
:: examples, and highlights for where the band does something ::
:: they haven't done before. 'Militant Hate Church' has a ::
:: trundling opening that leads to the band's cacophanous ::
:: onslaught coming back in. 'Eater of Hope' has a rather ::
:: sadistic sounding thrash bit that could well have been ::
:: meant for Voidhanger at some point before they realised it ::
:: fit better. The title track 'Axiom' is the album's "big" ::
:: moment in terms of atmosphere and dynamics, with the head- ::
:: down blasting of the rest of the album almost entirely left ::
:: aside for a song that plays out like a mix of Enthroned, ::
:: Behemoth and Dark Fortress - just with that trademark ::
:: insane drumming from Stormblast, and vocals that sound ::
:: quite similiar to Sonneillon from Blaze of Perdition. ::
:: ::
:: The production is a bit different this time round. While I ::
:: haven't been impressed with every project Mgla's M has ::
:: leant his hand to in the past year or so, I do appreciate ::
:: that he endeavours to give each album he works on a sound ::
:: that suits it rather than imposing his own sonic style. ::
:: He's more a Swan÷ than a Tagtren in that regard. So this ::
:: record sounds excoriating, heavy, brutal and sharp as a ::
:: dozen flung knives, perfectly suiting Infernal War. I would ::
:: have liked heavier drums, but they are still good and it ::
:: does have the effect of bringing me back consistently to ::
:: the guitars rather than being flattened by the percussion ::
:: all the time. So I can see the line of thinking. ::
:: ::
:: Infernal War claim of this new album, "we have no doubt ::
:: that AXIOM is our crowning achievement." Of course it isn't ::
:: very hard to find bands and musicians who claim that their ::
:: new shit is the best shit they've done - but in this case I ::
:: think they are probably right. In fact they've improved (in ::
:: leaps and bounds) as they've gone on. As for this new one, ::
:: it's tight, controlled and conceptually solid, Infernal War ::
:: have really outdone themselves here. If you love extremely ::
:: aggressive, blasting black and death metal, but well- ::
:: written to boot - such as Negator, Marduk, Draconis ::
:: Infernum and Impiety for example - then this is strongly ::
:: recommended. And if you just simply like metal that blasts ::
:: and blasts, then you're definitely getting that, plus a ::
:: whole lot more memorability than you usually ask of the ::
:: music you listen to. ::
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