Rage Nucleaire - Black Storm of Violence (2014)

Country: Canada

Genre: Black Metal

I really don't like to put the "black metal" label on this release because it's much more than that. It has some black metal, some death metal, even some industrial sounds. However, this combination is not what makes this release unique, and I'm not talking about it being unique because of its originality. It's because of this brutal, evil, cacophonous feeling that invades your listening experience, it virtually desecrates your ears even in the first listen. It owns some kind of "sonic violence", and every track is able to deliver an equivalent amount of this energy throughout the record. No wonder why they explicitly put the word "violence" on the album title. Lord Worm, of Cryptopsy-fame, provides the vocals in this record and the result is as grim as the music: they are distorted shrieks like coming from an infernal beast trying to escape from imprisonment. Not many vocalists like to incorporate effects in their singing these days, but I personally like how they used many vocal experimentations in extreme metal and somehow miss that they are not doing it anymore (the harmonised vocals of Glen Benton, for example). Music-wise, guitars are driven by black metal-inspired riffs (tremolo picking, some well-known black metal chords, etc) and the drums are mostly repetitive, and vicious: they sound like machine-guns in the process of annihilation. According to the information available from the band, drums were actually played and it's not a drum machine, but their robotic and almost perfect sound makes it easy to consider that they were computer-programmed. I would also like to mention that this is one of those records which are able to change my psychological state: there's too much violence, too much action, too much of everything. I can listen to it but not very often, my piece of mind becomes endangered. Anyway, I strongly suggest listening to this record, it's up to you how much you're able to handle it and this is very subjective. This record is just like drinking coffee: you drink as many cups as you want; whilst for some one cup will be enough, some others will become mindless addicts that will crave for more and more Rage Nucleaire. Beware of this record.

ngx981

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