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These
guys are going to have a hard time getting someone,
anyone, to issue them a black metal membership card. A
quick look at the boys informs you that they don’t don
any black leather. Beware of false black metal! Fuck the
fakes, death to hipsters, eh sausage lovers! There is
not even a bullet belt or a spiked armband in sight. Not
even in the background. Corpsepaint? No way, that gets
in the way of their natural next door neighbor look.
Goat tattoos? Ah, no that stuff is forever. Dudes look
natural. Like they just walked off the showers after a
fun game of ping pong.
They do have
the funny names to boost up their cred though. Whether jokingly
or not, I can’t tell. But the vocalist goes by the name of Eddie
Chainsaw, the guitar player likes to be called Gunslut, the
other guitarist is known as Richie Rabid (a play on Richie Rich,
that’s for sure), the four stringer is bolder, he is called
Abolish Yourself and the drummer, yeah, him of the blast beats
galore is Potential sole member of Infernal Stronghold. Now
that’s funny.
What’s not
fucking funny is the music. I can’t look through souls, nor read
minds, so whether real or not, kult or not, I couldn’t give two
craps. Music is king and this album is veritable, whatever that
means. I am just saying that it rocks in total chaotic and
satanic fashion. Godless Noise is filled with apocalyptic tunes
where string-thin riffs slice and dice the thickest of fogs,
head downwards at light years speed and crash violently against
the plastic window of the avernum. Potential sole member of
Infernal Stronghold ain’t no joke either. Dude blasts and beats
until forming an impenetrable barrier of noise.
Frankly,
black metal bands could learn a few lessons here. The craziest
music in Godless Noise seems to come from punk instead of metal.
Something about the way in which the music gets integrated. For
the most part, the music of Infernal Stronghold seems at odds
with itself. Occasionally, we hear the instruments running at
the same beat, heading in the same direction, but for the most
part all the satanic chaos comes from the freedom that being a
total mess affords. This is totally thrashy. Hence their
lively, vibrant sound, the ‘Cryptic Slaughter having lunch in
the Norwegian woods’ vibe is all over this record. Totally
ungodly!
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