Style: Nasty ass blackened sludge
Primary Emotions/Themes: An animal is stuck in a bog and slowly dying, these are the sounds it makes before it expires
Thoughts: The summer has been long and hot. The river flooded and filled the forest as a mire. The ground has become soft and difficult to tread through. Now that fall approaches that ground has become harder still to walk through, and the air reeks of death. This place is unfit for human life.
Black metal is typically seen as a fast musical genre. It's speed is only matched by it's intensity. Black metal is a varied genre however, and speed is not a requirement. Ensorcelor have taken black metal's typical speed to the extreme opposite end and showered it with a crown of sewage and muck.
Crucifuge is a slow, nasty, dirty, filthy, godforsaken beast of an album. Never does the band even approach anything higher than sixty beats per minute, and never do they let the listener rest. The guitars are heavy and produced in the same way that you would expect from a sludge band... heavy, thick, and f i l t h y.
The vocals are just as nasty as the rest of the band. They sound like they are coming from the back of the vocalists throat and he's struggling to get every word out because of all of the phlegm in his throat. It's the perfect accompaniment to music this nasty.
Crucifuge only has two songs on it, both around fifteen to twenty minutes. It's more like two extended compositions than it is anything resembling a typical song. The music is linear in it's progression, rarely revisiting themes once they have passed. Of the two of them I prefer By Mycomancy Insumed, but they are both excellent.
This is the only album I have from these guys, and from what I can gather this was their only full length. They have a few other recordings, but nothing like this. I found them on a backwater blog years ago, and I feel like that is wholly appropriate for a band who's sound is as nasty as these guys are.
Written September 9th 2024
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