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 | Bandname: Xasthur
Albumname: Subliminal Genocide
Rating: 4 / 5
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Buy Album: Amazon.com
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Tracklist
1. Disharmonic Convergence
2. Prison of Mirrors
3. Beauty Is Only Razor Deep
4. Trauma Will Always Linger
5. Pyramid of Skulls
6. Arcane and Misanthropic Projection
7. Victim of Your Dreams
8. Through a Trance of Dispondency
9. Loss and Inner Distortion
10. Subliminal Genocide
11. Malice Hidden in Surrealism
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Xasthur is the work of one man whose profound hatred for people results in some of the most dismal black metal around today. Malefic's creation has found a home at Aaron Turner's Hydra Head records. While this move may bother some, it doesn't matter what you think about the label switch because "Subliminal Genocide" is some of Malefic's best work to date and he couldn't give a flying fuck about his nay sayers.
This man has put out more material in a 5 year period than most bands will put out in a 15 year period. Extreme isolation will do that. The hatred this music was born from has formed well in Xasthur as you can hear on previous releases. Many will complain of the production quality but it's the context of the music that puts the production into perspective which makes it work for the music, not against it. Besides, the production on this album actually brings out the droning disdain of each song which in full.
Following the first piano track is a 12 minute towering inferno of what Xasthur is all about. The song radiates a dark void that is haunted by the roaring morbid vocals that Malefic seems to have perfected. The distortion has been brought up a little bit more on the guitar end so that it adds quaking vibration to the album. This is an album that deserves high volumes when listening. Distortion does bury the drums at times but they are only relevant when the song calls for it and when they are called for, they thunder.
Malefic, unlike many, is purely dedicated to his music in a way that many of us will never understand. The end product is "Subliminal Genocide", another release that proves why Xasthur is a powerful force in black metal.
Review by: Dave Huffy
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