Metal Reviews

Listened to and freshly released, at an A & B sound, at a local mall, back in the early 2000's. Certainly a recording of a 'classic-status,' but it is not a band, or a recording, which I can listened to more than, once, twice, three times, in a year. If even that.

Bethlehem - Lebe dich leer ( 2019 )

Dark/black metal from Germany.

Certainly a recording with a great deal of high-energy musicianship and a modified thrash-sound which was tending towards the melodic and the mid-paced.

Commentary unnecessary.

Enough prowess and force to make you give up all that you held dear.

The lingering odor of the dead flesh of Gods, the indeterminate domain of the afterlife, the production of the horizons towards corpuscular light.

The riffs and the structures blended here are like a scorching hot stone that one can hardly juggle because they are so unmanageable. Or like a sharp blade one cannot even hold in one's hand. Truly extreme.

From places adeep.

Likewise, extreme in representation, and in manifestation.

In a short while


Mirrors black reflected most sincerely.

An ancient civilization with plentiful riches.