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KULT OV AZAZEL |
 Admittedly, I have not been
paying close attention to the extreme metal scene in Florida, mostly
because I don’t really like sweatpants or death metal. That’s my loss,
turns out, because for the past 6 years, a great locust storm of infernal,
demon-conjuring black metal mayhem going by the rather fussy name of Kult
Ov Azazel has been not so quietly terrorizing the citizens of St
Petersburg with their monstrous super-satanic assault on God, country, and
sweatpants. “The World, the Flesh, and the Devil” is not only a mouthful
of a title, it’s also their latest masterpiece of murder and malevolence,
a non-stop orgy of witchy vox, booming thunder, and Immortal riffs. Right
out of the (hell’s) gate, opener “The World is Full of Violence” just
tears through your speakers and punches you right in the throat, and it
doesn’t let up until the dust clearing “Bloodstained Path to Victory”, 40
or so minutes later. No ‘eerie’ 8 minute epics here, no goth-tinged
keyboard bloat, just a smashing, crashing ode to the apocalypse made by a
bunch of green pea pukers in corpepaint. Awesome. |
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-Sleazegrinder |