DODSFERD
Cursing Your Will to Live
(Moribund)

THE WARRIORS
Genuine Sense of Outrage
(Victory)

CRUSHING THE
GRINDCORE
TRADEMARK
3-Way Split
(BlastAsFuk)

BLUT AUS NORD
Odinist
(Candlelight)

CREATURE FEATURE
The Greatest Show Unearthed
(Sumerian)

FACE THE PANIC
The Reclamation 

(Reaper)

PHASED
Medications

(Elektrohasch)

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Once you get past the intro “All of Them Are Dead” and are violently thrown into the dark vortex that is the purely metal music of Dodsferd it is clear that we are dealing with the real thing here. No troll loving, stick walking, crappy ass production loving, lame ass corpse paint cheeky rose white ass, grandpa vocals, Smurf-like forest creatures around here. For once, with one man Greek unit Dodsferd the one man black metal entity truly does sound like a full band of realized musicians that are out to write killer metal. Yeah. Sure. We also have blasphemy galore and portentous statements such as the album’s title which comfortably tries to damn absolutely all. But this coming from Dodsferd mastermind Wrath, whose previous titles include Fucking Your Creation and Desecrating the Spirit of Life, comes now as a somewhat humble statement.  It helps that every riff transmits a vibe that is as rotten and necro as it is big and miserably obscure.

Even for a nihilist who is in self-claimed isolation Wrath is quite the prolific dude. All that time alone by himself hating the world is definitely paying off as Cursing Your Will to Live is Dodsferd’s fourth release of 2007 and judging the record by that thought alone one might imagine it would lack creativity and quality. Truth is, Cursing Your Will to Live is filled with obscure nuances, elaborate guitars, basic yet competent drumming, grandfatherly but still God mocking vocals, a not so lo fi (read; not shitty) production and extended tracks that usually go over the seven minute mark.  This reveals an exhaustive creative process. The record clocks in at over seventy minutes, so really, if you want to get totally demoralized of living you have plenty of material here. It helps a great deal that the songs are killer and that there are plenty of hooks, so in all sincerity, this is great, it’s just not that depressing.  I wonder if Wrath has a day job.

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