Pure Holocaust

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Pure Holocaust
Studio album from Immortal

Publication
(s)

1993

admission

September 1993

Label (s) Osmosis Productions

Genre (s)

Extreme metal

Title (number)

8th

running time

33:43

occupation
  • Drums : Erik "Grim" Brødreskift

production

Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin, Immortal

Studio (s)

Grieghallen Studios

chronology
Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism
(1992) 		Pure Holocaust Battles in the North
(1995)

Pure Holocaust is the second studio album by the Norwegian extreme metal band Immortal . It was released by Osmose Productions in 1993.

Emergence

The album was recorded in 1993 in the Grieghallen studio. Grim can be seen on the record cover and is mentioned as drummer on the album , but Abbath on Immortal's side . Abbath stated that Grim only joined Immortal during the mix and was only named on the cover as drummer because Immortal wanted to present itself as a full band.

Music and lyrics

The very fast music paired with the Gnostic lyrics of the album is seen as Immortal's attempt to overcome the boundaries between the real world and the better afterlife , the representation in the lyrics conjures " the spirit that always denies ". The protagonist describes himself as a disembodied demon in a state between action and rest, life and death, self and alien, which is seen in the tradition of 19th century poetry by poets like Arthur Rimbaud . The term “Pure Holocaust” represents Immortal's idea of ​​Black Metal, the beginning and end of the dark universe in which the world is located.

Track list

  1. Unsilent Storms in the North Abyss - 3:14
  2. A Sign for the Norse Hordes to Ride - 2:35
  3. The Sun No Longer Rises - 4:19
  4. Frozen by Icewinds - 4:40
  5. Storming Through Red Clouds and Holocaustwinds - 4:39
  6. Eternal Years on the Path to Cemetary Gates - 3:30
  7. As the Eternity Opens - 5:30
  8. Pure Holocaust - 5:16

reception

The contemporary reviews were not very positive. Although the musicians always emphasized that they were not Satanists , which is why they called their music "Holocaust Metal" and not Black Metal , Kai Wendel of German Rock Hard called the Immortal members " devil worshipers ", whose "complete mental hypothermia [... ] have experienced no improvement ”, and those who take their messages seriously should“ occasionally drop by the shrink and have their confused brain waves rectified ”. The band has gotten faster, but in the long run Pure Holocaust gets boring, “the riffs that get stuck in the back of the mind and a few above-average ideas that would give the disc a few highlights and highlight it from the dull mass of similar noise orgies would be missing. Conclusion: solid, but faceless. ”His colleague Götz Kühnemund described the band in its phase before the successor Battles in the North as a moderate“ Venom / Bathory copy ”, for him and Frank Albrecht Pure Holocaust was “ a single laugh ”. Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann, however, called it a "God album". In retrospect, the album is considered "legendary" in the black metal scene. In 2009, Rock Hard listed the album as number 6 of the 25 most important albums on the scene according to the magazine.

Pure Holocaust was repeatedly associated with right-wing extremist movements in black metal in the 1990s, so Der Spiegel reported in 1994 from a meeting in Sülzhayn , at which "black metal glorifying violence" was played and the title song of the album was "attraction of the evening" be. The title was interpreted as racist or as a reference to the extermination of the Jews "as a means of expressing malice ". Rainer Fromm attests to the album that it "propagates death and destruction". According to Abbath, the title is inspired by Mayhem's demo recording Pure Fucking Armageddon and has no political connotation. The lyrics are an example of an apocalyptic confrontation in the black metal scene in the early 1990s. Christian Dornbusch summarized the song in the book Unheilige Alliances as follows:

“[The] motifs shaped by an apocalyptic dictus culminate in the metaphor of the 'total Holocaust', as Immortal sang about it in 1992 in their song Pure Holocaust. […] In the described spectacle of the forces of nature, war and death […] lead to total destruction, the Holocaust. The Holocaust is not meant to symbolize the Shoah but rather a generalized idea of ​​annihilation. "

- Christian Dornbusch : Unholy Alliances

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Discography. (No longer available online.) Immortal, archived from the original on August 23, 2012 ; accessed on September 13, 2012 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.immortalofficial.com
  2. ^ Roberto Martinelli: Interview with Immortal. (No longer available online.) Maelstrom Zine # 8, archived from the original on June 4, 2011 ; Retrieved September 14, 2012 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maelstrom.nu
  3. ^ A b Eric Butler: The Counter Reformation in Stone and Metal . In: Nicola Masciandiaro (ed.): Hideous Gnosis. Black Metal Theory Symposium I . CreateSpace , 2010, ISBN 978-1-4505-7216-3 , pp. 23-31, 29 .
  4. ↑ Eric Butler: The Counter Reformation in Stone and Metal . In: Nicola Masciandiaro (ed.): Hideous Gnosis. Black Metal Theory Symposium I . CreateSpace , 2010, ISBN 978-1-4505-7216-3 , pp. 31 .
  5. ↑ a b Markus Eck: Immortal. The solemn triumph of hatred. Metalmessage, April 11, 2000, accessed September 13, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Varg Vikernes : A review of M. Moynihan & D. Søderlind's "Lords Of Chaos: The Bloody Rise Of The Satanic Metal Underground" (New Edition). burzum.org, June 28, 2004, accessed September 13, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Det svarte alvor .
  8. ↑ Kai Wendel: IMMORTAL . Pure Holocaust. In: Rock Hard . No. 82 , March 1994, p. 82 ( online [accessed September 13, 2012]).
  9. ↑ Götz Kühnemund : Immortal . Battles In The North. In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 96 .
  10. ↑ a b c Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Immortal. Pure Holocaust . In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 97 .
  11. ^ Christian Dornbusch , Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, p. 59 .
  12. ↑ Infernus and Sacrificial Blood. Followers of the Satan cult fraternize with right-wing extremists. Motto: "Recreate Auschwitz!" In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1994, pp. 91 f . ( online ).
  13. ↑ a b Brad Angle: Immortal: The Brothers Grim. Guitar World , September 30, 2008, p. 3 , accessed September 13, 2012 .
  14. ^ Robert Scholz: swastika as provocation: "No politics - just music". Right end of the line , August 4, 2009, accessed on September 13, 2012 .
  15. ^ Rainer Fromm : Black Spirits, New Nazis: Young People in the Sight of Totalitarian Movements . Olzog, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7892-8207-2 , pp. 61 .
  16. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances. Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism (= council  - series of anti-fascist texts ). Unrast Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 129 .