Christcrushing Hammerchainsaw is Swedish newly-founded label Metalblood Music’s first release. I cannot help thinking it is a good omen that they have chosen BESTIAL MOCKERY for starters, because this is a hell of a great album.
It is the band’s debut CD as well (their discography consists of: 97 demo Christcrushing Hammerchainsaw, 98 demo Chainsaw Demons Return, the 99 split live tape with LUST Live For Violence, 2000 demo War – The Final Solution, 2000 split 7” with SUICIDAL WINDS Nuclear Goat and finally a limited LP edition of Chainsaw Execution in 2001), but as you could read from all of this, they have a pretty established status in the Underground BM scene. It certainly is plainly justified.
The line-up has remained stable through the years, except for some occasional problems with bass players. The band are currently Master Motorsåg (screams and chainsaw domestication), Doomanfanger (absolute Swedish distortion), Devilpig (masculine war annihilation on four eastern fronts) and Warslaughter (frustration unleashed on drums). They recorded Christcrushing Hammerchainsaw over a period of 2 days in a row and the result is as good as it gets under such circumstances, obeying the band’s predefined goals.
What is the essence of the band’s music, I hear you ask…From the very first track, Bestial Warfare, you get a powerful mixture of Death and Black Metal, with a certain predominance of the Black side, particularly on vocals and guitars. Old school Black with a raw feeling, enhanced by a rawer sort of suitable yet clear production, enabling to distinguish between the instruments, and the bass in particular is clearer than the rest.
From the second track, Suicide Blasphemy, one gets the impression that a new brutal dimension is being added to the album, and it pervades Christcrushing Hammerchainsaw, not in the least because all tracks have a massive magnitude of speed, with occasionally ‘simple’, occasionally ‘virtuous’ guitar parts, a fast drummer with a really great feeling for a raw essence of playing faster yet well~played raw Black/Death. Generally speaking, the album turned out much more interesting that I was expecting, and some Thrash influences have not been disregarded ~ there seems to be a particularly strong form of POSSESSED / TURBO feel to it. The fourth track, Crucified In Dirt, is a superb dark hymn, starting off in speed and brutality and developing onto an amalgamated mass of destruction.
I am not sure whether Raise The Chalice is a cover song… it is a good song, but somehow it does not sound like BESTIAL MOCKERY. That, or just picture BM venting out their Thrash influences. Which is what makes BM’s music genuinely pure Thrash Black Metal.
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Cover Bestial Mockery – Christcrushing Hammerchainsaw Front
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