Ripping black metal from the United States, Angelcorpse arose from the ashes of Order From Chaos and formed a modern style, high-speed death/black metal effort.
Angelcorpse Production: Although clear enough the production is fuzzy in less than atmospheric and just humid ways, often bleaching tone of instruments except in the squeamishly cheesy ranges of treble. Review: Although possessing the elements of musical power this black metal hybrid presses its acidic but pointless form of grinding darkness upon the listener to little real effect other than the agitation of repeated, inconclusive rhythms and riffs. In that is the artistic "function" of this work, to draw blood through irritative mimesis of the outside world.
Hammer Of Gods - 1996
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1. Consecrated 2. Envenomed 3. When Abyss Winds Return 4. Lord of the Funeral Pyre 5. Black Solstice 6. The Scapegoat 7. SoulFlayer 8. Perversion Enthroned 9. Sodomy Curse |
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With a powerful and chaotic drumbeat filling the background and screaming lead guitars in the Slayer/Morbid Angel style of tormented atonal noise, Angelcorpse present a solid basis for musical composition but instead fill it with random, drifting, inconclusive phrases and enticing but meaningless speed fills. Granular rhythmic extractions from established death and black metal allow this release to integrate into a fan base of either genre.
Exterminate - 1998
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Batteries of violent rhythms caught in cycle allow this band to run through long riff structures without running down, but their conception of harmonic tension is absent and as such riffs are vacant, heartless, abandoned. Despite high speed strumming and frenetic violence in the changing chords of chorus riffs, the unfilled space is the conceptual space behind what unifies this elements: not much except aesthetic adherence to an ideal, something so worshipped it hashes out its usefulness.
The Inexorable - 1999
| 1.Stormgods unbound 2.Smoldering in exile 3.Reaver 4.Wolflust 5.As predator to prey 6.Solar wills 7.Begotten (Through blood & flam e) 8.The fall of the idols of flesh |
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Iron, Blood And Blasphemy - 2001
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Includes some great unreleased tracks (When Abyss Winds Return, Desecration of Virgin, and Demon Seed - Kill Again) some great covers, (Eat Me Alive, Wolflust, Burning in Hell , Pleasure to Kill, Genghis Khan) and some live tracks (Phallelujah , Reap the Whirlwind, Envenomed, Sodomy Curse, Perversion Enthroned, The Scapegoat).
