Prosatanica Shooting Angels
| Prosatanica Shooting Angels | ||||
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| Nargaroth studio album | ||||
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Publication |
2004 |
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| Label (s) | No Colors Records | |||
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Format (s) |
CD |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
56 min 19 s |
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| occupation | Kanwulf | |||
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Prosatanica Shooting Angels is the fourth album of the solo project Nargaroth and was released in 2004.
Kanwulf himself describes it as his favorite Nargaroth album after mistress of the rain , since it "is an album [is] an atypical Nargaroth album in almost all elements".
Track list
- Love Is Always Over with Ejaculation - 1:12
- Be Dead or Satanic - 8:41
- Satan Industries - 5:33
- Thinking Below the Ocean - 4:51
- Black and Blasphemic Death Metal - 8:13
- A Tear in the Face of Satan - 10:17
- The Dark Side of the Moon - 2:50
- Hunting Season - 6:10
- I Bring My Harvest Home - 8:32
background
The album was often seen by critics as a change of style from Nargaroth. According to Kanwulf, this is not true; Originally it was not planned as a Nargaroth album, but as a demo recording entitled Shooting Angels of a side project called Prosatanica. Nevertheless, according to his saying " Kanwulf is Nargaroth, Nargaroth is Kanwulf - No compromise ", despite the musical and textual differences, he released it as an official Nargaroth album, as he saw himself and Nargaroth as a unit. According to Kanwulf, Thinking Below the Ocean was recorded in early 2001 and the rest of the album in January / February 2004.
content
The texts are in English only. Carl von Lords Of Metal , when reviewing a promo version without text, assumes that the lyrics are not particularly significant. In contrast to the previous Nargaroth publications, they occasionally take up the figure of Satan , who in the song Be Dead or Satanic serves as a symbol of rebellion and is depicted in Satan Industries as the root of evil in the world. A Tear in the Face of Satan depicts him as a human being who feels and is no longer loved by God, whose hatred and destruction should possibly hide his pain.
Musical aspects
The style of the album sounds musically similar to the previous releases of Nargaroth. In the booklet itself Kanwulf describes the style as "Black and Blasphemic Death Metal". The song of the same name “is inspired and partly stolen by VELES, the masters of Black Hateful Metal” [sic!]. Kanwulf emphasizes that no keyboards were used: "All I needed was a bass to create these spheres." The vocals can hardly be understood, the bass sounds artificial and can hardly be heard. Kanwulf uses more film samples than usual.
Presentation
The cover, which shows a skull on a table on a desk pad, is a vanitas motif by Pieter Claesz . However, the background has been replaced and a crease has been retouched in the lower left corner, underneath an old text in Carolingian minuscules can be seen.
The original logo for the project, which contained two staked angels, is printed on the back of the album, which, however, atypically contains both the project and album title.
On the back of the supplement there is a dedication to AJH (this is probably Andrew J. "Akhenaten" Harris by Judas Iscariot ), Hat by Gorgoroth (Kanwulf expressly refers to the early phase with the demo recording A Sorcery Written in Blood and the debut album Pentagram relates) and the German one-man project Silexater. Under this she finds the self-designation as "Black and Blasphemic Death Metal" .
In the booklet you can find numerous greetings to Black , Death Metal and Grindcore bands, such as Moonblood , Anal Cunt , Gut , Waco Jesus , Strid , Cannibal Corpse , Slayer etc., whereby most of the bands with the intent " old ” , with which Kanwulf wants to express his ideas about the alleged decline of Black Metal. On the back of the booklet, the phrase “No Dark Throne Fan!” Is printed in large letters. Also among the greetings is the right-wing extremist band Absurd , in addition to the bands Graveland , Infernum and Veles from the Polish NSBM environment .
Reviews
Carl von Lords Of Metal called Prosatanica Shooting Angels a decent CD overall, but criticized the production. Daniel from Metal Reviews counts Nargaroth as one of his favorites, but describes the album as mostly ordinary and boring. The reviewer from Ruhrmetal also counts himself among those “who show ardent admiration for his works” , but were disappointed by the album. He described the statement “No Dark Throne Fan!” As “[g] too ironic”. The class of old Darkthrone works is "undisputed", their new albums are "soulless and only for sale". He is "inclined to say something similar about this work". Amicus von Myrrthronth wrote: “The current prank is by no means good, neither from a production nor a musical point of view”. “Really stupid” are the “many, small details that additionally damage the album”, the song titles are pubescent and the film samples are cheap and inappropriate. There are, however, "individual, qualitatively positive slip-ups", which in turn would be "destroyed by the amateurish, tailored sound image". The drum tracks are partly known from the album Black Metal ist Krieg and the sound is "about as thin as unseasoned raw water". The bass tracks sound "so artificial [...] that they could possibly come from the badly disfigured keyboard", but gave isolated titles such as A Tear in the Face of Satan "an extremely dark note"
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b self-description on the official website.
- ↑ a b c Prosatanica Shooting Angels (PDF; 3.5 MB).
- ↑ a b c d e Carl: Nargaroth - Prosatanica Shooting Angels .
- ↑ a b Amicus: Review - Prosatanica Shooting Angels .
- ↑ DANIEL NARGAROTH - Prosatanica Shooting Angels .
- ↑ Review: Nargaroth - Prosatanica Shooting Angels .