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Black Divine

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语种:英语

唱片公司:Self-Released

发行时间:2011-12-10

类别:录音室专辑

Black Divine专辑介绍 The South African quartet published their second record in last years december, which was the first lifesign I recognised. We will, therefore, concentrate on this output without any comparisons to their debut, but I guess Black Divine will feature enough material to draw proper conclusions. There are nine songs, filling round about 45 minutes of playing time. The record makes some clear statements at the beginning of the first song when some really harsh wind blows out of your speakers.

The South African band doesn’t waste any time to show that they play quite compact black metal, as the first song starts quite abrupt. The guitars are playing fast and melodic riffs and are accompanied by the powerfull drums. Everything is rounded up by the doubled vocal lines, which are pending between high pitched screams and really deep growls. The whole track tries to adapt to the change in vocal style as the growled parts are usually held in midtempo, rhythmic patterns while the screamed ones are quite fast and really melodic. Although the song pends between those two contrasting patterns, it never looses the golden thread and it manages to keep this sublime mood. The climax of the song is accompanied by clear, female vocals which is repeated during the chorus. Haters of female vocals don’t need to be afraid, as they are really sparsely sawn throughout the record, so that only one to two other songs feature them.

The first song shows some clear tendencies towards the traditional black metal, but – at the same time – it’s the most innovative one, featuring some elements of melodic death metal. The growls could remind you of bands like Insomnium and co, while the slower passages seem to be based on some tracks of Enslaved. They feature several elements throughout the record, that aren’t really black metal ones but the bands main inspiration are clearly bands like Dissection, Naglfar and (newer!) Satyricon. Enthroned Black Angel cites songs like Beyond The Horizon of Dissection, while Oceans Lustrous Overture is closer to the work of Naglfar. So one could say the music is held in the Swedish tradition of black metal, featuring fast, melodic and often dual-threaded guitar leads and nagged vocals.

However, the band manages to keep their special note through well done changes in tempo, those well dosed “black metal foreign” elements and the style of melody arrangements, which is a bit strange at times. Although they maintain this special note the music of Warthane is still quite traditional, so that you have to describe it as a mixture of existing styles and records. The record should easily convince fans of the old, Swedish style of melodic black metal but at the same time (or because of this) it features some “Hey, I know that riff!” moments. Although the band tries to minimise this effect, there are some boring or verbose passages in their tracks because of this similiarities. This effect is balanced – at least a bit – through some really brilliant songs like Betrothed Black Winter’s Dawn.

Conclusion:

Although I never heard of Warthane before I found this record, I bet nearly every fan of black metal will have heard of them sometime in the future. Black Divine is a solid mixture of traditional playing styles like the one of Naglfar or Dissection, without simply “covering” it, so that there is enough new stuff added to it. Although there are some similiarities to existing songs the band manages to balance this effect through really brilliant songs like the first or the last one. One thing is really clear: Everyone who loves traditional Swedish black metal should love Warthane too, and they will become something bigger in the future.
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