Genre: Black Metal
Label: Negative Existence
Their first album in ten years(!), and Maniac Butcher still haven’t lost their touch. This is just goddamn insane straight up black metal, and it’s perfect for those that like an almost more death metal approach to the genre, without entering blackened death territory. Think Marduk, if you’ve never heard Maniac Butcher before, or some of Belphegor’s output, and at times old Peaceville-era Darkthrone.
The sound is raw, trebly, with excellent riffs that stick in your head long after the album is done. It makes you want to keep listening to it, over and over again. Now if only I understood the lyrics; they’re all in Czech.
My favorite tracks are the insane “Bezbozne rouhani…” and the riff-laden “Rozhodnuti nezvratne…”.
8.5 out of 10.
Maniac Butcher Official Site.
The founder of Funeral Rain Records in January 2009 and Funeral Rain Zine in March 2009, Dustin "General Blaspheme" Ekman has been listening to rock since he can remember and metal since 1998, starting with nü-metal then quickly moving on to death, then black, then expanding onwards to what he listens to now: everything. ///
Favorite bands: Darkthrone, My Dying Bride, Cannibal Corpse, Bush. ///
Favorite album: My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings. ///
First live show: Kittie with Disturbed supporting and Shuvel opening.
Tags: 2010, 8.5 out of 10, Czech Republic, Despise, Hellocaustor, Maniac Butcher, Masakr, Negative Existance, Solfernus, Zlo
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