Kill – Inverted Funeral
I found this tucked away in a remote corner of Myspace and after hearing the samples there, Inverted Funeral bullied it’s way onto my deathdeck. It has remained there almost constantly for a couple of weeks now.
Hailing from Sweden, Kill push a flavour of Black Metal firmly stuck in its own limbo between Black Metal and Black Thrash. They’ve been active since 1999 and this is their second full length offering. Like all good dealers they have a hardcore following of junkies waiting to shoot up their goods. If I could fit the CD into a syringe I probably would!
Anyway onto the album. It begins more like a Black Sabbath CD than Black Metal – but only for a few seconds as it soon settles into swift riffing that is soaked with early 90′s influence. So much so that you’d be mistaken for thinking it was from that era and not 2007.
It’s a decent tune but Kill don’t unleash their full potential until the second track “Deathmessiah”, and any song featuring air raid sirens gets instant bonus points. This is a cold and grim blaster that’ll have you tapping your feet like a frozen penguin. With icy guitaring and fucking brilliant nekro vocals it rips along, catching you with its simplicity.
From beginning to end, Kill play middle to fast tempo, rarely dropping into slower arrangements. Structurally Kill haven’t done anything startling - that would defeat the object – but the songs are nicely varied and have a hefty momentum all the way through, and in parts it can be as gruesome as lesbian Grandma anal fisting porn!
That said, this is not “play as fast as you can” Black Metal. Kill take a measured approach, sometimes combining the slower riffs with faster beats and vice versa, then breaking into wickedly satisfying thrash-like riffs (only in essence though, because they sound fucking nasty and too harsh to be labelled as such).
Most of the eight songs weigh in at four to five minutes long with one shorter, the intense little frenzy called “Of Anger”, and two longer at six and eight minutes. The production is excellent in all areas, from the amount of distortion through to the levels of each instrument. It’s clear and crisp but raw and underground too.
There is plenty to sink your Black Metal beak into here, like a vulture pecking the last traces of gristle from a rotting carcass. Firstly, Inverted Funeral is laced with foot-stamping riffs. Secondly the undead vocals are quality, and treat us to some really grotty shrieking and funny bellows. Also the bass guitar has room to breathe as either a song opener or buzzing along on its own mission, which adds depth to the songs and is something that, in my opinion, has always been lacking in this style.
This is an example of the underground at its best. There ‘s nothing fancy or over the top, including the artwork, which looks like it was drawn by someone’s little brother, but isn’t out of place. Kill have created a filthy collection of nekrogasmic war marches which would make a fitting soundtrack to an undead Nuremberg rally. Great beer drinking music and a must for any fanatic’s collection.
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haha, very primitive..I found it amusing really
Over the last few weeks, this album has really become a firm favourite of mine. KILL have a fuckin awesome sound and their riffs are addictive (especially on ‘Violent Devastation’). Good shit indeed. Their ‘Horned Holocaust’ album fuckin rips as well.
hehehe…Misan…BM needs a sense of humour, even if it is not evident in a certain band I always laugh at how nasty and severe the music is.