reviews_aversesefira

曲目：

    01. Flight from a Stagnant Land

    02. Wind Witch (Abset)

    03. Arrival

    04. Rift Between Two Worlds

    05. The Introduction

    06. Winter of My Bliss

    07. Siege

Homecoming's March

Arrogare Records 1999

Evil Horde Records 2003

曲目：

    01. Hymns to the Scourge of Heaven

    02. For we have Always Been

    03. Sentinel's Plight

    04. Pax Dei

    05. Above the Firmaments of Wrath

    06. Ad Infinitum

    07. Homecoming's March

Battle's Clarion

Lost Disciples Records 2001

Candlelight Records 2007

曲目：

    01. Battle's Clarion

    02. Condemned To Glory

    03. Withering, The Storm...

    04. Deathymn

    05. The Nascent Ones (The Age Of Geburah)

    06. Argument Obscura

    07. The Thousand Aeon Stare

    08. Fallen Beneath The Earth

    09. ...Ablaze

bonus track on the re-release:

    10. Battle's Clairon [live/multimedia track]

     In the center of the Earth, there is a grand Iron city enclosed in gloomy Flames, which is made of black metal! From there, you might hear the crackling of fire, Battle's Clarion, a second album of a US Black Metal band, AVERSE SEFIRA.

     Based in the state of Texas, which is a hot pit, AVERSE SEFIRA hailed as one of the USBM elites, along with them are HAVOHEJ, KRIEG, KULT OV AZAZEL, JUDAS ISCARIOT, DEMONACY... Yes, we should notice this rising black star!

     Battle's Clarion has coined seven songs, the first one is really a good case in point. There is much more you can expect from it than simply listening to the first track. Shot riffs mixed with complex changes, tight but intelligent drum work, out-of-control yet intemperate guitar and vocals, a flow of bass all over this well-arranged album... good-balanced production plus excellent cover design altogether make Battle's Clarion a worthy choice to every Black Metaller who into IMMORTAL / SATYRICON. These songs are carefully divided into three parts by two instrumental tracks: "Withering, the Storm..." and "The Thousand Aeon Stare", which have nothing to do with traditional folk-like guitar tracks, but cold Ambient interludes instead, which always reminds me of the darkness and atmosphere created by NEUROSIS.

    AVERSE SEFIRA's debut album is Homecoming's March, released by their own label Arrogare Records in 1999. The main differences between it and the second one are not only the shortness of most songs, but also the new drummer known as The Carcass. A touch of Death Metal (ANGELCORPSE, REBAELLIUN) of Battle's Clarion may be his contribution more - he also plays drums in his own band called Death of Millions. I love this, in the same way I love the usage of almost unidentified logo. They use true Black Metal stuff like makeup, spikes and pseudonyms: bassist - Wrath Sathariel Diabolus, guitarist / vocalist - Sanguine Asmodel Nocturne, which I also consider as the right(left) thing. But I have been long time obsessed by Extreme Metal, since the most important part is the hidden ideology and music is only the veil. Wrath once told us, "We derive ideas mainly from the course of own lives - feelings of triumph, loss, camaraderie, betrayal... these elements are the foundation of our work. In conjunction with there, we also combine elements of black magick, Qubbalistic studies, and a hint of epic poetry for good measure." That’s why I think this album is not for every newcomer: it doesn't have trendy Gothic keyboards; it doesn't have those used up blasphemous words. Battle's Clarion is not Northern Light of AURORA BOREALIS either! It would be a hard experience for quite a number of fans to accept this album by once or twice listenings, however, they will be waken up and be impressed by its chaotic aversions and dark, blistering strength that never thought of!

     Hails to AVERSE SEFIRA! Hope they can tell us one or two longer stories more detailed next time!

(Please check my interview with AVERSE SEFIRA here)

Tetragrammatical Astygmata

Evil Horde Records 2005

曲目：

    01. Detonation

    02. Cremation of Ideologies

    03. Hierophant Disgorging

    04. Plagabraha

    05. Helix In Audience

    06. Mana Anima

    07. Decapitation of Sigls

    08. Transitive Annihilation

    09. Sonnance Inumbrate

Advent Parallax

Candlelight Records 2008

曲目：

    01. Descension

    02. Seance in a Warrior’s Memory

    03. Viral Kinesis

    04. Cognition of Rebirth

    05. Serpent Recoil

    06. A Shower of Idols

    07. Refractions of an Exploded Singularity

    08. Vomitorium Angelis