Band:	Stigmhate
Album:	Zodacare Od Zodameranu
Style:	Black metal
Release date:	June 22, 2014
A review by:	wormdrink414

01. Aetherion
02. The Third Obsidian
03. Ave Averno In Genesi Nema
04. Mistress Of Bone's Mounds
05. Pleroma Apocrifa Mistica
06. Adamas Ater
07. The Templethoth
08. Radiant Darkness
09. May The Cursing Be
10. Feralis Exercitus
11. XV
12. Abraxas [bonus]

Zodameranu isn't the kind of album that will get your neuronal pistons firing in any kind of unique or strained way. You could call it cruise-control black metal, and that'd be fair.

I mean, there's nothing bad or unappealing about zoning out to an album, but it is important to consider whether the band in question wanted you to zone out or not, and I have a feeling Stigmhate didn't really want people using this album as background music. At best, though, that's what they've offered here.

Yeah, okay, maybe you won't use it as background music. If you're in love with the post-2nd-wave "myriads" style, and you like the black classics but don't like how lo-fi they are, say, there's probably plenty you'll enjoy on this. And no one will judge you for it, they'll just judge your taste in music.

It's not that what these guys have done on this is unlistenable?it's more of the same from them, and therefore more of the same more-of-the-same black metal?it's just boring. Yeah, there are catchy moments, furious-sounding bits and all of that good stuff, but there aren't enough catchy, furious bits to prevent staghnation. It's a slick, melodic black album that would have benefited from a handful more hooks.

It's not terrible. But there's ultimately so little here that writing a 250 word review is hard. Just need twenty-four more words though, twenty-four from the beginning of this sentence that is, this sentence that is, of course, and sand land.