Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn, the 8th release by Austrian Blackened Death Outfit, Belphegor, our underground sweethearts. The album lives up to its trademark 'evil' and sexual profanity but I do admit, the album gives one a feeling that the band has run out of ideas, lack of inspiration.
The album contains 9 tracks in total starting with the title track consisting of some serious blast beats and layered growls, it starts of pretty intense and pretty much stays real forceful throughout.Veneratio Diaboli - I Am Sin, the 2nd track is my personal favorite, because of its sense of uniqueness among all the other tracks. Haunting atmosphere, underlying melodies + raspy vocals are a win, the alternating guitar segments in the song merged pretty well even with slow tempos, its also the longest track but it's loaded with cataclysmic mayhem.
The 3rd track, Hail The New Flesh, okay, the name is pretty corny I felt. It's got a similar atmosphere but we've lost the riffs. Fierce drumrolls, crazy blastbeats. Brutal but kind of cheesy more than haunting.
Reichswehr In Blood is a bore. Why? Because it really has no special standout moments, its fast its demonic but very usual.
The Crosses Made Of Bone again has these very oldage riffs. Not much.
Der Geistertreiber is a little interesting, you'll either like it or hate it. Very bassy, gutteral vocals and an industrial feel, more like Rammstein * Death.Metal.
Destroyer Hekate leaves you breathless, it's another fav. I'd like to see someone headbanging to this piece of brutality.
Enthralled Toxic Sabbath retains that atmosphere that was evident in the starting of the album, killer drumming, raspy vocals. Doom riffs and a bit of an old school touch to it.
The last track of the album, Hexenwahn- Totenkult continues to have the doomy riffs, but the song seems to be very laid back, slow tempo-ed, except w\for the haunting intro, i didn't like much about it.
All-in-all, the album is aggressive, wicked vocals, groove and catchy riffs, lots of pummeling blasty parts, speedy drumming, good technicality. Lyrics were fairly okay, (I always do check out the lyrics of Belhphegor!) The entire album was very in-your-face with a sense of eroticism which is Belhphegor's signature style. But I'll say it again, lack of inspiration, not much experimentation except for a little melodic contest, Bondage Goat Zombie was a better one for me.
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