 Krieg
Lashing out in vehement disgust at a world lost to illusory pursuits, content in meaningless existence, and gripped by the fear of death, Krieg is relentless and savage black metal representative of the unforgiving nature of reality. Violent frustrations through shredded-throat screams of hateful torment, corrosively swirling distortion of guitars, inexorable percussion battery, conspire in determination and strength of will, intoxicated on utter contempt for modernity’s love affair with individualistic superficiality and moral concepts of "equality" and "freedom". Destruction Ritual is cold void of reality portrayed through whipping noise-flow in chaotic revelation. Perplexing stamina and speed of percussion paces fragments of pandemonium as "songs" in a blur of bass-less swarm, momentarily slowing the cutthroat barbarity before no-warning blasts of unrelenting speed reclaims the sonic throne. The music is feral in its expression of primal truth of human essence, exercised in what the commonplace perceive as an unimaginable degree of hatred and discontent, nihilistically ripping through constructed illusions to reach the truth beyond implementation of human values. Shrill screams of ludicrous fury form the voice of the eternally frustrated who possess the capacity to penetrate the smokescreen that obscures the enslaved masses from ultimate meaning as understood by the unconditioned and heroically impassioned. Grim and cold, ugly and vile, Krieg is uncompromising spirit through black metal at its most antagonistic and uncharitable. Guitars as abstract noise, shaping riffs with barely realizable form, streams songs along in drifting yet determined guidance, while drums pound in unstoppable storms of fury, belligerent yet performed with highly impressive awareness. The entirety of sound sets forth an ambience of erosive darkness under which exists a process of eternal disintegration. Brief yet appropriately discomforting dark ambient pieces functionally set at the beginning, middle, and end of the disc, work to stimulate an atmospheric dynamic while maintaining impulse and power of presence of the album as a whole. The baffling array of screams, howls, and shrieks from Imperial raise the level of ferocity achieved by the music to a degree of absurdity, emphasizing the beast in man, the primal nature that societal institutions seek to repress as we worship at the altar of scientific "progress" and technological dependency. As our world grows further enamored with the idea of defeating death through a robotic construct of civilization, the animal within man strikes in retaliation. This can never be undone. We are what we are. We seek ascendency in unnatural forms, betraying the essence that defines us. Mankind can never conquer the quality that makes it what it is. The madness of Krieg reflects the insanity of this aim, while equally communicating the nihilistic rage seething deep within the awakened unimprisoned human spirit. When the falsity of modern society is uncovered, revealing the truth of reality as it exists separate from human concepts, the fears that enslave the undistinguished and feeble are exposed for what they are: ideas given life through the process of subtle manipulation to maintain the veneer of meaningful existence among a population who are crippled within by persistent depression and tedium. The sources of their inner emptiness are not even within the scope of their awareness, as the machine that controls their lives has effectively misled them into thinking material pursuits and low forms of pleasure are the answer to fulfilling lives. Slaves, unaware of their slavery. Krieg is the aural removal of such fabrications. Those who identify the beauty in this expression enter this blackened void with the recognition and acceptance of the harsh, cold, unsympathetic nature of reality, and depart with their convictions only further confirmed. Black metal, in its essence, is the music of spiritual revolt in our time. It is the art performed by those who know what it means to "wander the stars" in an era of mindless endeavor and anti-systemic lifestyles. In rusted, ferocious, preposterous black metal, Krieg’s Destruction Ritual achieves the universal voice of the strikingly aware and fearlessly dissatisfied driven mad by a system whose foundation lies upon unreachable dreams of utopian bliss. 1/ 28/ 07 Tracklisting: 1. Destruction Ritual Krieg Discography Battlegod demo (self-released,1996)
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