Kénôse
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| Label (s) | Southern Lord , Norma Gospel Diaboli, The Ajna Offensive | |||
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CD, LP |
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3 |
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36:20 |
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Kénôse ( French translation of the Greek κένωσις Kenosis ) is an EP from the French black metal band Deathspell Omega from 2005. It contains a 40-page booklet with texts and in four languages ( English , French , German and Latin ) Illustrations at. The EP continues the avant-garde Black Metal path taken on the album Si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice and is viewed by the band as an appendix to the album and its main theological-philosophical theme.
Track list
- I - 15:46
- II - 11:25
- III - 9:09
Music genre
The strongly Scandinavian-influenced style of the early works is “hardly existent” on Kénôse ; a "strong deadly lead-heavy sound goes hand in hand with - almost out of tune sounding - guitars, from everything drowning out, maddening, frenzy (which for Marduk may represent mere wishful thinking) to slow parts that seem to spread over the listener like a threatening thundercloud" . Kénôse is “a tad more confused and chaotic structured” than Si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice . In addition to fast and complex structures with rapidly changing rhythms, which at first seem “idiosyncratic” and “strange”, there are also “quieter and clearer passages including a gentle acoustic guitar ”. In chaotic music, the song structures are sometimes only recognizable to the listener after a few rounds.
Texts
In the text, the kenosis , Jesus Christ's renunciation of divine attributes in the incarnation , is referred to as his degradation. By accepting humanity and simultaneously occulting divinity, Jesus, according to the band, fell away. Kenosis is a dangerous theory that robs God of all attributes and fills the shattered universe with death and rot. Having become empty, he gives empty questions and answers according to the emptiness of man. The aura of God is only empty and weak. Especially now, in God's absence, man should fearfully and tremblingly work for his own salvation ( “Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but so much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling… “ ( Phil 2.12 EU ), whereby Deathspell Omega's choice of words does not exactly match any common English translation of the Bible ).
Hence, God honors the sword which he calls his own orderly. Hanging, torture, beheadings, murders and fights are His work and His judgments. The Son of Man, Jesus enthrones war as a form of divine retribution, sanctifies it as an agent of divine providence.
Man is lost between the restrictive power of Cain and the expansive power of Abel . He falls from his mid-position between angel and beast when he refuses to ask for a being superior to him. Adam's apostasy and the dividing line between the redeemed and the damned are said to be questionable. Eliminating the worse from the universe would eliminate Providence itself. The listener is asked to question the patterns of the prophetic mode and the perception of both sides of the divine.
The only way to God's salvation is to be reviled and ridiculed. The forbidden fruit, on the other hand, offers the greatest potential to offer infinite knowledge. The text raises the question of whether the pursuit of perversity is not just a mask in search of meaning and knowledge.
The dragon, known as Satan or the Devil , is thrown to earth ( "Et proiectus est draco seine magnus serpens antiquus qui vocatur Diabolus et Satanas qui seducit universum orbem proiectus est in terram et angeli eius cum illo missi sunt." ( Rev 12.9 EU )). The question of whether the pursuit of perversity is not just a mask in search of meaning and knowledge is repeated; the purest Holocaust is said to proceed from a loving hand, ignorant of whether it brought bliss or the most hideous of eternal torments. The over the bright light of truth blind victim repeatedly stammering: lamma sabacthani ( Jesus's last words , why have you forsaken me 'in? Aramaic actually לְמָה שְׁבַקְתָּנִי lema schewaktani or ܠܡܵܢܵܐ ܫܒܲܩܬܵܢܝ lmana schwaktan in the Koine transferred λαμμα σαβαχθανι lamma sabachthani or λαμα σαβαχθανι lama sabachthani ).
layout
In addition to illustrations, there are also English, Latin, German and French statements that are not sung in the booklet before and after the actual song texts and inserted into them. These are the call to prayer for the veneration of the cross on Good Friday ( “Ecce lignum Crucis, in quo salus mundi pependit.” , Without the addition: “Venite adoremus” ) and quotations from Léon Bloy ( “Le fond de ma pensée est que dans ce Monde en chute toute joie éclate dans l'ordre naturel et toute douleur dans l'ordre divin. " , " L'Esprit du Seigneur ne Se promène pas seulement dans les cimetieres. Ceux qui Le connaissent peuvent Le rencontrer partout, fût-ce en enfer, er Il dit Lui-même que le feu marche devant Sa Face! " ), Louis Claude de Saint-Martin ( " Nous n'avons pas d'autre moyen que la douleur pour sentir notre propre existence spirituelle et divine; nous n 'en avons pas d'autre pour la fair sentir à nos semblables. " ) and from the Vulgate ( " Si non credideritis, non intelligetis " ( Isa 7,9 EU ), " Et vestitus erat veste aspersa sanguine. " ( Rev 19 , 13 EU )) cited. To read in German are the statements "You throw me into the musty dust of death" and "This song that storms him, tears his heart apart, destroys the senses ..." brings torment and death, and in English the question "May repentance be nothing more than a mask for algolagnia? ” and the Bible quote (again not exactly matching any common English translation of the Bible) “ And we have the prophetic word made more sure you will do well to pay attention to this as a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts " ( 2 Petr 1.19 EU ).
reception
Andrei Slavescu from Metal1.info described Kénôse as "an interesting, innovative and versatile album", which he would like to recommend "to everyone who is enthusiastic about avant-garde black metal". Hellcommander666 from Metalstorm praised the album as "almost indescribable" and as "Black Metal hurricane as you rarely hear it in this genre". The band processed on the album "more ideas than some Black Metal bands in their entire career". It is "not at all comparable to other Black Metal albums, it is something completely new, audible madness, combined with incredibly strong songwriting". He described the fact that Deathspell Omega attaches great importance to technology and that the band still manages to create atmosphere as "a masterpiece that many bands, especially from this genre, cannot achieve". The band “catapulted itself to the top of a genre with this album”. AK von Sputnikmusic, on the other hand, criticized the fact that the focus on dissonance and ugliness quickly makes the music boring; with typical Black Metal lyrics and corpsepaint pictures, the album would probably be mediocre. However, he gave the band a positive credit for a few interesting passages, such as the church choirs or interesting combinations of instruments. Franziska from undergrounded.de wrote that you have to "listen to the record several times to recognize that the instruments with the variable, mostly roaring, vocals fit one to one into the very rough and powerful but nevertheless very typical Black Metal production"; the band had "in any case not made a uniform mixture with 'Kénôse'". She rated the album 7.5 out of 10.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Andrei Slavescu: CD Review: Deathspell Omega - Kénôse. (No longer available online.) Metal1.info, archived from the original on October 28, 2012 ; Retrieved June 30, 2011 . 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.
- ↑ Jeffrey van de Kemp: Archaic-Magazine.com :: Kénôse :: Deathspell Omega /. (No longer available online.) June 30, 2005, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 10, 2010 (English). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Aceust: http://www.hateful-metal.de - Deathspell Omega - Kénôse. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 9, 2007 ; Retrieved May 10, 2010 . 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.
- ↑ Hellcommander666: DEATHSPELL OMEGA - Kenose. (No longer available online.) Metalstorm on October 19, 2006, archived from the original on December 26, 2008 ; Retrieved June 30, 2011 . 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.
- ↑ AK: Deathspell Omega - Kenose (album review). Sputnikmusic, July 2, 2007, accessed June 30, 2011 .
- ^ Franziska: Deathspell Omega - Kénôse , accessed on November 13, 2012.
