Style: dissonant black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: The screaming never leaves my head. The pain never leaves my body. I will never be free of this suffering.
Thoughts: Iceland is a beautiful country. It's filled with scenery that can't be found anywhere else on the planet. The language is so insular that no other language sounds like it anymore. It's truly unique... and this carries over into the music that they create.
Flesh Cathedral consists of four songs, four monoliths, four hymns. These four tracks do not treat the listener kindly. They demand that the listener be attentive, and for that attention we are rewarded with pain. The riffs do not follow normal conventions, the transitions do not work well (intentionally so), the production is bright and can cause tension headaches if taken in too much at once. The vocals are harsh and buried deep in the mix, you have to strain to hear them. Flesh Cathedral is auditory pain, so why do I like it so much?
It's because it rewards those who go beyond the pain, go beyond the dissonance. The riffs after some time start to make sense. Those janky transitions actually are to the benefit of the music when it clicks. The vocals being buried mean they are simply another instrument to the whole. It all starts making sense... and when it does Flesh Cathedral is more than pain, it is art.
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