BLASPHEMOUS – Bearer of the Darkest Plagues CD
Baars Records
This band hails from the Philadelphia and South Jersey area which I know first hand is definitely a place that’s grim, black plus full of death and those are just the things you see in the row houses. It’s a perfect place for a hate filled band to come from because influences abound. I don’t know about a full on black metal band though which BLASPHEMOUS would like everyone to believe they are. I just get visions of some overweight slob in corpse paint wearing an Flyers jersey and stuffing his face with a cheese steak. Then again it could be skinheads in bomber jackets who got off hearing AD HOMINEM and wanna recreate it. Either way Bearer of the Darkest Plagues is a ten cut filthy sounding release which bounces around as if genres were lottery balls. Unfortunately the winning numbers on here are not in the black. BLASPHEMOUS actually sounds better when they cut into blackened death thrash mode and rip apart at the seams. “Path to our Demise”, “Entering Oblivion” and “Among the Wolves” are perfect examples of when things run well. Otherwise the only thing going for them in the black metal department is catchy song titles like “Raped Upon the Altar”.
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