Band:	Dødsferd
Album:	Diseased Remnants Of A Dying World
Style:	Black metal
Release date:	December 14, 2018
A review by:	nikarg

01. My Father, My Wrath!
02. An Existence Without Purpose
03. Diseased Remnants Of A Dying World
04. Loyal To The Black Oath
05. Back To My Homeland... My Last Breath

Dødsferd's latest record has no right to be this good. We had impressive albums released in 2018 by Varathron, Nigredo, [url= https://tractatuskyklos.bandcamp.com/releases]Tractatus[/url], Human Serpent, [url= https://eriphion.bandcamp.com/album/-]Eriphion[/url] and Acherontas (and I'm sure I've missed a few), so one could easily argue that Greece had already reached its maximum allowed awesomeness for black metal releases this past year.

But Diseased Remnants Of A Dying World arrived late to beat all the odds.

Dødsferd have been around since the beginnings of the millennium and their latest effort is the tenth full-length of their career but they've also had a hefty number of splits and EPs under their belt. The genre is and has always been black metal; depressive, raw, punkish, whatever they have chosen to unleash upon us all these years has always been pure black metal in its core. Diseased Remnants Of A Dying World lies closer to the more depressive side of the spectrum, thus serving as a natural follow-up to its brilliant predecessor, Wastes Of Life.

The album consists of five tracks and clocking-in at just under 52 minutes, it often changes tempo and rhythm, mood and ambience, progressively inducing every negative emotion you can think of. At times it is trudging and hypnotic with Shining-styled acoustic parts. Then it gets fiery and torturing with Mgła-ish tremolo riffs. Some fast-pacing drums and a chaotic assault of cymbals are used to cause distress and panic. On top of it all, Wrath's desperate and tormented clean vocals reflect a wounded animal crying in agony in the middle of a barren land, while his inhuman shrieks and screams ooze spite and contempt, hatred and rage.

Towards the album's final moments you can hear the clock ticking, indicating that our time is running out and spoken words, vicious shrieks and uncomfortable strings forebode a painful closure. Without lacking the riffs, Diseased Remnants Of A Dying World tears your soul apart by creating changing black metal soundscapes of melancholic poetry, claustrophobic bleakness and provocative aggression.

The introspective and condemning music comes wrapped in magnificent artwork that depicts a human being on fire, kneeling down in hopelessness, surrounded by black land and sea. Self-immolation might be the only logical answer to our existence's absurdity and the incendiary nature of the album couldn't have been portrayed more accurately by its cover.

If catharsis is what you're after, [url= https://dodsferdofficial.bandcamp.com/album/diseased-remnants-of-a-dying-world-black-metal]this one is for you[/url].

"Your fucking existence?"