PROFANATICA – Disgusting Blasphemies Against God CD
Hells Headbangers Records
The earth’s crust cracks open and out from it pours forth blackened armored beasts with the sign of the pentagram painted in human blood on their helmets. They march in cadence to a mechanized rhythm. This army of the underworld overwhelms the surface dwelling sheep using their crushed bodies for lubrication as they continue on their mission to destroy all that is holy and divine. Yeah that’s what this reminds me of and then some. If you are into necro black metal and bands like SPERM OF ANTICHRIST, KERASPHORUS and BLASPHEMOPHAGHER then you need this one. PROFANATICA aka: Paul Ledney (vocals & drums) and John Gelso (guitar & bass) don’t like jesus and most likely you as well. Some bands can pull off their hate for the holy with artwork, lyrics or intense music. Disgusting Blasphemies Against God simply combines all three for a lethal trident that is the absolute best this band has ever done. I’ll even go as far to say that this release will go down in history as one of the most anti-christian BM releases of all time. (I’d even put their Broken Jew EP from 2002 on that list as well simply because I still laugh about that one) One listen to it and you’ll understand my opinion is far from hyperbole. You’ll also have the most sinister grim on your face (like me) or you’ll be scared for life and never listen to metal music again.
PROFANATICA is to black metal as NUNSLAUGHTER is to death metal and we all know how much certain death metal fans think of NUNSLAUGHTER. Some individuals like their christ hating a little on the subtle side with atmosphere, ambiance and lyrics ripped from an atheist’s class paper. Personally I have nothing against some of that but when elitists holed up in their ivory towers start complaining about the stench of burning religious texts it’s time to toss them onto the pyre as well. That’s another reason why I like this release so much. Because I know it will piss off the metro-sexual indie rock losers who slum the halls of black metal. Disgusting Blasphemies Against God is this band’s high water mark considering that all of it started back in 1990 when three ex-members of INCANTATION wanted to have some blackened fun. Since then things have changed dramatically. After a few years the band broke up then reformed in 2001 with Ledney the only original member. Even from that point on it’s been a hell of a ride. To those who thought their 2007 release, and actually their first official full length, Profanatitas de Domonatia was like pissing in the chalice at the last supper then this will melt it.
This apocalypse starts out with “Black Cum” of which all disgust is spawned from and moves along like the earlier mentioned blackened armored beasts. There’s no tremolo picked madness no harsh shrieking in fact what you do get is heavy handed bass thundering BLACK DOOM. Ledney’s drumming leads off in a military style cadence while his scorched vocals bark off commands. “Pious Piece of Shit” and “Christs Precious Blood Poisoned” bleed into one another like converging rivers of hate. Genres get meshed between gears of the mighty machine churning out “Smashing Religious Fucking Statues” and “Fuck the Blood of the Lamb”. “Covered in Black Shit” is simply haunting as a gong rings out like dinner bell for a giant mouth readying to consume everything. As this thing comes to a closing the more epic, if that word could even be used here, “Angel with Cock” mixes some atmosphere with brutality. All I can say is blasphemy never sounded so beautiful, just fuckin beautiful.
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