Perdition Winds is the apex of exactly what I look for in black metal!!!!
“Purification” has a really clean production that brings out
this brutal and hollow echoing effect to all of the instruments and vocals that
actually sounds a though the band are live. The rhythms are clunky and heavy
like massive boulders dropping, especially with the skins being beaten to a
pulp, that gives the song a primitive occult atmosphere of ritual and blood
sacrifice. The guitars are buzzing in a swarm of chaos and have a clean
distorted sound to them that, in combination with the rhythms, yields a filthy,
toxic, and addictive mixture. The bass tones really round it out to give it
some serious brass knuckle knock out power rather than the common over trebly
hazy gas like feel that is common in black metal.
The closest description that I can come up with would be to
say that Perdition Winds is meeting of Finnish and Greek black metal styles,
definitely some similarities to Serpent Noir with the cryptic occult ritual
spots present toward the and of “Corrupted Image of God”. For black metal PW
almost borderlines on the swampy but never sinks all the way into the muck,
they just have this aggressive and “full” tone that almost does slug you right
in the gut with the impact of being hit by Hummer.
“Perdition Winds” ditches the ritual and secretive doings of
the cult and moves forward toward a full blown blitz attack of colossal
dynamics and changes in rhythm that keep you jolted and electrified as the
seedy underbelly of bass grabs you like a powerful undertow and drags you
across the bottom of their black pool of evil. There’s also this epic and
majestic subtlety to the sound in each song, but nothing involving symphonic or
more atmospheric effects to give it that feel, these guys just create it
naturally. The moaning at the beginning and throughout the song is like that of
some werewolf cursing at the moon.
Ending with the bloodfreezing stomp of “Path Revealed” this
EP could not have been any more gratifying to my ears except for being a full
length. It’s about as Draconian and cult as one could possibly get, but with
top notch production!!!! “Path Revealed” is like an old gothic horror tale come
to life, but in shades of red only instead of black and white and especially
emphasized in its soft strumming outro.
Recommended overall, but especially for fans of: Embrace of
Thorns, Varathron, Serpent Noir…
Not yet available, but in the works from German label Darker
Than Black, so check out the link below periodically for updates on the release
date.
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