Black Metal Against the World

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Black Metal Against the World
Extended play by Funeral Winds , Leviathan , Ad Hominem , Eternity

Publication
(s)

2004

Label (s) Undercover Records

Format (s)

Vinyl EP

Genre (s)

Black metal

Title (number)

4th

running time

13:50

Black Metal Against the World is a split EP by the bands Funeral Winds , Leviathan , Ad Hominem and Eternity . According to Eternity's drummer Basilisk, Kaiser W. von Ad Hominem, with whom the band had been in contact for a long time, planned this release and then requested it from Eternity. Eternity and Ad Hominem also performed together with Magog and Absurd in Abbendorf on February 24, 2004 , Kaiser W. and Basilisk also play together in the multinational project Dead ?. Emperor W. plays with Funeral Winds' drummer Balgradon Xul in Nonessencegenesis. The EP was released in 2004 by Undercover Records in an edition of 1,000 copies, of which the first 200 were pressed as "splatter" vinyl and the rest on black vinyl.

Track list

  1. Funeral Winds - The Old Serpent Stirs - 03:13
  2. Leviathan - In Adverse Talons - 03:58
  3. Ad Hominem - Black Thrash Desecration - 02:37
  4. Eternity - Each Night .... (Blitzkrieg Version) - 04:02

The order is wrong on the cover. There the titles of Leviathan and Funeral Winds are given for the A side and those of Ad Hominem and Eternity for the B side. All titles are exclusive in these versions.

layout

The split EP was released with a gray fold-out cover, on which the EP title and the band's lettering can be seen on the front. On the back is In odium redivimus (Latin, roughly: returned in hatred ).

style

The Old Serpent Stirs continues Funeral Winds' traditional black metal style. The song was recorded in the Vortex Studio in Zevenhuizen. For the album Nexion Xul - The Cursed Bloodline there was a new recording in a less raw version. The text refers to the deity Tiamat in connection with satanic ideas .

Leviathans In Adverse Talons is kept repetitive, but does not correspond to the "suicidal" style for which the project is known, but is played in a fast black / thrash metal style.

Ad Hominem plays at Black Thrash Desecration varied, thrash-metal-influenced, aggressive and mostly fast extreme metal with organic percussion instead of the industrial-metal -beeinflussten style, is known for the project. Kaiser W. played bass, guitar and vocals, instead of a drum computer he used the session drummer Altar .3K6 from Crystalium; Sound engineers were Kaiser W. and Draciv. In the lyrics of the song, plagues on earth replace heaven and hell on earth is established, with the weak being annihilated without mercy. The Christians, Muslims and Jews are told that they will be reduced to dust and the “hungry ovens” will be “fed”, alluding to the Holocaust . Altar .3K6 now also plays under the name Altar ZK6 with the band Arkhon Infaustus , whose singer and guitarist Dk. Deviant described the collaboration between Altar and Waiser W. as a unique collaboration between people despite personal differences of opinion; Kaiser W. had offered him to participate in a payment check. In addition, the relationship between the altar and Kaiser W. has since become more difficult; The latter speaks of honor as a Nazi and describes other "races", especially the Jews, as thieves, and deceives even the guest musicians of his project.

Eternity also plays in the traditional style; Here guitar and drums are played fast, but the slower screams put their speed into perspective. The band itself describes the aspired atmosphere as rough, gloomy and destructive. Although the title is Each Night .... (Blitzkrieg Version) , there is no song of the same name on any other release. On the album … And the Gruesome Returns with Every Night , however, there is a song called Every Night , the protagonist of which is tempted to kill every night. Each Night .... (Blitzkrieg Version) is a musically faster version of it with English lyrics and raw production; the metric of the German text has been retained, for example “mass murder” is incorrectly emphasized in terms of language. The pronunciation of “methods” is also incorrect, where the o actually ə spoken o is pronounced as a diphthong oʊ. Both texts were written by Thorstein, the owner of Blut & Eisen Productions, who is considered a "passive member" of the band.

Reviews

The split EP was not reviewed in many magazines because of the right-wing extremist tendencies of some of the bands represented on it. Critics from the Antifa environment emphasized Eternity's personal environment and, in calls for boycotts, referred to racist statements by the musicians, their long-term contact with Kaiser W. von Ad Hominem and concerts with bands such as Ad Hominem and Absurd , as well as statements by Funeral Winds. The openly right-wing extremist texts of Ad Hominem were also emphasized, and despite the apolitical texts, Funeral Winds, Eternity and Leviathan were also referred to as NSBM bands. From the point of view of the authors of Unheilige Alliances , this split publication together with a few others "gives the impression that it is good form to appear on a split with Ad Hominem". On the French side Resistancia Underground, however , Black Metal Against the World was praised and described as an "absolute bloodbath". Stewart Voegtlin, however, called the title of the EP " Venomesque ".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Right-wing extremist music groups at a concert in Innsbruck .
  2. ^ Christian Dornbusch , Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 67 .
  3. ^ AA NDH: April 28, concert with Eternity. Indymedia , April 16, 2004, accessed October 14, 2010 .
  4. ↑ 2009 May at AMBOSS-MAG.de NewsFeed ( Memento from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ AV: dead? –Dead? ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / schlachtenruf.de
  6. ↑ Mortarv: Ad Hominem interview (with Kaiser Wodhanaz) .
  7. ↑ ETERNITY .
  8. ↑ a b c d e Funreal Winds / Leviathan / Ad Hominem / Eternity . ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Resistancia Underground. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.resistancia-ug.org
  9. ↑ a b Seb: Arkhon Infaustus: Entretien avec DK. Deviant .
  10. ↑ a b April 21. - NSBM concert prohibited .
  11. ↑ a b AA NDH: April 21. - NSBM concert prohibited. Indymedia , April 11, 2004, accessed October 14, 2010 .
  12. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances. Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 174 .
  13. ^ Ad Hominem - a fascist black metal band ( Memento from October 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  14. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances. Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 225 .
  15. ^ Stewart Voegtlin: Leviathan / Acherontas - Sic Luceat Lux . TheLeftHandPath.com