NIHIL QUAM VACUITAS ORDINATUM EST

Is it happening? Am I starting to enjoy death metal?

I come to this one via my love for the kinds of black metal that sound like you're falling into the depths of hell. Reverb, dissonance, chaos, and drummers that defy limbs - turn the lights out and let the darkness wash over you. I even compiled as stupidly titled spotify playlist to cover it, and decided to include death metal artists with the same atmosphere too. That has brought me to Ad Nauseam, who are truly a death metal band, even if the atmosphere is more adjacent to Deathspell Omega and Svartidauði than anyone else. And despite the standard issues I have with death metal vocals and riffs, I actually find myself enjoying this. It's terrifying and menacing and captivating in the way a good horror is - somehow all without falling into the comical or silly like so much death metal does.

6.5 (2nd listen)

Part of my listening diary from my facebook music blog - www.facebook.com/TheExoskeletalJunction

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