During our decade, it seems that Poland is for black metal what Norway was in the 90s and France in the 00s. Hoodies have replaced corpse paint and with bands such as Mgła, Cultes Des Ghoules, Furia and now Batushka, this eastern European country is out to become the leader of the pack for the extreme genre. Litourgiya is hands down the best debut of 2015 and is battling with Mgła's Exercises In Futility for the title of black metal album of the year. And it probably beats it.
I'm annoyed about this albums hype because there's something slightly going for it throughout, but not enough interest to reface the entire bm landscape.
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I'm annoyed about this albums hype because there's something slightly going for it throughout, but not enough interest to reface the entire bm landscape.
Actually it's just blackened doom
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"Aah! The cat turned into a cat!"
- Reimu Hakurei
I'm annoyed about this albums hype because there's something slightly going for it throughout, but not enough interest to reface the entire bm landscape.
Actually it's just blackened doom
Just So we do have a hierarchy between genres here. Bm>doom?
I'm annoyed about this albums hype because there's something slightly going for it throughout, but not enough interest to reface the entire bm landscape.
Actually it's just blackened doom
Except that there is zero to no doom in their sound.
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Just So we do have a hierarchy between genres here. Bm>doom?
Nah... The word "just" is to emphasize there's nothing exactly new to the sound like everyone is implying since merging doom and black has been done a lot of times already. Not necessarily a demerit adverb for black or doom.
For people saying it isn't doom it's ok to think as doomed black instead of blackened doom then.
The tempo is hella slow and sometimes the guitar notes are played in a non-typical blackish manner (ie, tremolo) but rather crushingly and separatedly. Listen to this song until about 1:40 then stop. If that's not doom I don't know what is.
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"Aah! The cat turned into a cat!"
- Reimu Hakurei
Absolutely fucking love this. Very aggressive bm with chants and orthodox influenced songwriting. Such an addictive listen. Their wooden tape boxes are fucking gorgeous. Sad nothing is available at a decent rate and the cassette wooden tape box is totally not available at all.
Also not doom at all here. Shame when I saw the doom tag everywhere else it wouldn't be here in ms, but not sure why its present here.
Can't speak for others here, but I personally love the combination of black metal and orthodox russian chants. That's a pretty neat move if you ask me.
Saw a bit of them live last Saturday and it was really bad.
Saw them this weekend at Brutal Assault and it was amazing! Even though the album didn't catch me before. And I'm now listening to it
Give them another try if you have the chance one day
An absolutely massive release! The only reason I dont give it the perfect score is because I feel that the chants arent mixed into the music to be as loud as I would like them to be. The unique orthodox chants are often drowned by the thunderous drums and growls, which damages the atmosphere in my opinion. It sometimes feel as if the two are clashing against each other instead of building upon each other.