Style: blackened death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Chaos and darkness
Thoughts: I'm not entirely sure how I came across Dkharmakhaoz. It may have been a clearance event at a store, or I may have thought it looked cool. Either way it's in my collection now.
Proclamation ov the Black Suns combines classic black metal melodies with a strong sense of dissonance. Below this dissonance is a heaviness that is not normally found in this style of music... almost a death metal level of brutality. To wrap it all together are vocals not only filled with venom, but a good dose of disdain for humanity as well.
The music is played at various paces - ranging from near doom metal to typical black metal speeds. The black metal dominates most of the record and it's fine for what it is. The band sounds more comfortable though in the slower more doomier sections of the album. The dissonance mixed in with the heaviness and those absolutely hatred filled vocals, it's excellent.
I'm curious to see where Dkharmakhaoz decides to take their music in the future. At the moment, this album seems like it has a lot of good ideas but they don't all gel together as well as I think they can. When the band is doing the more doom oriented side of their music they truly showcase what they can accomplish. If they somehow got that to show up in the black metal side, or if they found a way to merge the two more consistently then the band could quite possibly release something special.
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