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If
you are into black metal because of the wild stuff, then
Semen Datura is not for you. If you are into black metal
because of the rawness of underproduced music, then,
Semen Datura is not for you. If you are into black metal
because you want music that will chill your bones than
Semen Datura is not for you. If you are into black metal
because you want music that empathizes with your moronic
right wing views then Semen Datura is not for you. If
you are into black metal because you like chaos then
Semen Datura is not for you. If you are into black metal
because you like your art lowbrow then Semen datura is
not for you. If you are into black metal because you
like vulgar straight up blasphemy then Semen Datura is
not for you. If you are into black metal because you are
an absolute misanthrope then Semen Datura is not for
you.
This German
band belongs to a not so new breed of black metallers who seem
to be trying to elevate the intellectual quotient in this
bastard subgenre. Therefore, their black metal ain’t that wild,
blasphemous and chaotic. Instead, it focuses on weaving
somewhat fractured tunes that only after one realizes come from
a satanic background can be associated with the black metal
movement. At some levels, the music of Semen Datura seems based
on heavy metal more than on say, the examples of Venom or Burzum.
The sounds here are tidy and controlled, in instances
alternating between short passages of Satanic fury and more
controlled clarity. Appropriately, the production is crystal
clear, with all the knobs turned just the right way to give
every instruments and its shade their share of the spotlight.
Like Secrets of the Moon's
Privilegium, Einsamkeit is best when
swallowed in small doses. Their tunes aren’t excessive by any
measure, but having the whole of Einsamkeit in one sitting
leaves the listener bloated. There are so many riffs here.
So many tempos and changes. But take a song like “Psychokrieg”
and you can’t help but believe its awesomeness. If Queensryche
had ever turned to the dark side they would have sounded like
this. Had they gone oompa, folk and Geoff Tate had grown a
witch nose, they would have sounded just like Semen Datura do in
the acoustic number “Vineta”. Yeah, I could do without the
acoustic guitars and shit, but hell, such are the high brow
offerings of the devil himself.
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