NUNFUCKRITUAL - In Bondage To The Serpent CD
Debemur Morti Productions
Genre: Black Metal
Rating: 3/5
Whenever a promo press release states " likely to go down as one of the most corruptive, vile albums of 2011" one should take notice. Before I even get into this release it needs to be explained that NUNFUCKRITUAL is another Black Metal super group. It's mainman is guitarist Teloch, aka: Morten Iversen, who for years has been a hired hand playing live with such notable Norwegians as MAYHEM, 1349, GORGOROTH and OV HELL. He's also been a full fledged member of NIDINGR and UMORAL to name a few. Joining Teloch is vocalist/keyboardist Espen T. Hangard (formerly of DISKORD), bassit Dan Lilker (from BRUTAL TRUTH) and drummer Andreas Jonsson (formerly of TYRANT). Also Teloch retained the services of MAYHEM's Attila Csihar (who will sing for anyone nowadays) and 1349's Ravn as guest vocalists. So on paper with all of that talent of blackened alumni, except for the majority of Lilker's musical career of course, you would accept the premise that this is going to be a truly vile release, vile meant in a good way of course. Well not so fast.
In Bondage To The Serpent is not as corruptive or vile as it is darkly hypnotic. I'll even toss in sinister sounding since it's highly influenced by the last creative works of MAYHEM (Ordo Ad Chao) and 1349 (Revelations of the Black Flame and Demonoir releases). The sound on here is suffocating with atmospheric blackened tremolo picked doom which is not a bad thing. The six cuts on here, all over the six minute mark in length, literally crawl for a whole forty-five (close to it at least) minutes. The first attempt at speed comes in at the half-way point of the fourth cut "Cursed Virgin, Pregnant Whore". The saving grace of this release are the keyboards which add a truly foreboding gothic atmosphere to some of songs. At least Espen T. Hangard earned his stay in the band with that because vocally his tormented (studio effects) growls and rasps are average compared to Csihar's little yet incredible contribution. In my not so humble opinion Csihar should have sung on the whole release. Even stranger still is that Teloch's guitar style on here is closer to what Blasphemer aka: Rune Eriksen was doing on MAYHEM's Ordo Ad Chao release and is now doing with his present gothic doom band AVA INFERI. In the end it's closer to being a Halloween soundtrack than murder music.
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Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/nunfuckritual
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