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BLOOD RITUAL :
BLACK GRIMOIRE

This Seattle-based, Satanic Death-Metal band has been around for awhile, over a decade in fact, but this is only full-length number two, following 1997's "At the Mountains of Madness". According to the band's label (Moribund Records), they have had a very weird history indeed, filled with eerie, mysterious, occult-ish occurrences etc. Anyway, what was once was a full-blown band, is now just basically one man, founder Tim Bishop (an active member of the official Church Of Satan no less). Tim apparently recorded every instrument heard here, and supplies the vocals as well. "Black Grimoire" (love that title) is heavy as hell, sounds totally f*cking evil, and is chocked full of lightning fast riffs. The root inspirations for the sound found here seems to be early American Death-Metal with a satanic bent, bands such as Deicide and Morbid Angel. On a technical level, this shreds, but (and it's a pretty important butt) there ain't no damn songs! Sure, there are songs, but there aren't any songs, you know what I mean, there's nothing definable, or memorable. Each track here just sort of blurs into the next. Where's the structuring? Where's the hooks? It gets hard to tell what track your on, or even if you've just started or finished a song. As we have a lot of songs in the five, six, and even eight-minute range, things already tend to seem dragged out longer than they really are. Basically, Tim seams to have all the right things going on, but the final outcome is just missing something. It's like having all the parts to a high-end Ferrari in your garage, but you just can't seem to put it together properly. Maybe if Tim rounded this project back out to a full band and got some additional input, he could turn this monstrous sound into monstrous songs.
RATING = 6 Satanic Death-Metal (Released 2005)

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