Music Reviews: AVERSE SEFIRA
AVERSE SEFIRA
美国黑暗金属(BLACK METAL)乐团“对抗天使”(AVERSE SEFIRA, Official website)所有完整唱片列表:
01 - Blasphomet Sin Abset (Demo)
02 - Homecoming's March
03 - Battle's Clarion
04 - Tetragrammatical Astygmata
05 - Advent Parallax
Blasphomet Sin Abset
Demo 1997
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
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