Craft - Void - review
Craft - Void - review
Tracklist
01. Intro (John's Nightmare)02. Serpent Soul
03. Come Resonance Of Doom
04. The Ground Surrenders
05. Succumb To Sin
06. Leaving The Corporal Shade
07. I Want To Commit Murder
08. Bring On The Clouds
09. Void
A review by
KwonVerge September 02, 2011
So, was it worth waiting? Of course it was, it's Craft we're talking about and if you intend to listen to some good old traditional black metal with a better production (without alienating the more traditional vibe they want to bring forth) then these Swedish terrorists are your cup of radioactive tea. Nine compositions (if you consider as one of them the 20-sec intro) are here to unleash a never-ending storm willing to quench your thirst for dry black metal that's not afraid to groove. There are moments Mikael Nox's arid interpretation feels like Nocturno Culto's youth revival with the necessary echo effect. You will also witness a welcome amount of Darkthrone references here and there, take "Serpent Soul" for example, there are moments I feel like listening to "In The Shadow Of The Horns" through a Satyricon prism; and it's so damn good. Apart from the up-tempo moments, there are enough mid-paced passages leaning towards a malicious lurking environment that expands its territory until the next outburst. The two guitars walk together in perfect harmony, evoking a sense of disharmony from the railway riffing to some groovier passages and from some tight melodies to a more ominous expressing manner. The bass lines blend wonderfully with the guitars and in combination with Dirge Rep's (of Gehenna fame) spot-on drumming the circle is complete.
The album closes the curtain with my personal highlight, the self-titled composition. It simply is a small hymn to corruption with the ambient opening and a vomiting oral gunfire, paving the ground for the mid-tempo threatening guitars and a horrifying interpretation to break into a groovier passage that slowly but steadily speeds up to burst into an addictive hallucination.
Craft don't present something new, after all it's not their purpose. Yet, they know what they're doing, with respect to their references (Darkthrone, Satyricon etc) they fuel their well-preserved machine with ill-natured inspiration elementals so as to keep on breathing in the nuclear smog; trust me, they don't need biohazard suit.
PS.
"I Want To Commit Murder", don't try this at home or anywhere else, except for your stereo.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 6 |
| Production: | 9 |
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Thanks for reviewing this piece of art(my favorite bm for this year). I'm enjoying your reviews a lot lately 
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Craft is a tiny love  Thanks a lot for your words mate 
---- Dec. 30, 1334. ...And the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on.
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Posts: 63 Written by KwonVerge on 02.09.2011 at 01:50 I'll speak for everyone else and say we enjoy the reviews as well.
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Posts: 4603 Written by ScanDoppelganger on 02.09.2011 at 09:27 +1, you're currently the only staffer reviewing something around here
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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Nice album this one... its mainly the darkthrone influenses which got me hooked to this album but a great album overall... And an awesome review as always
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