{"id":31477,"date":"2019-11-19T12:14:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dutchmetalmaniac.com\/?p=31477"},"modified":"2019-11-19T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:14:11","slug":"review-noctem-the-black-consecration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutchmetalmaniac.com\/2019\/11\/review-noctem-the-black-consecration\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Noctem – The Black Consecration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earlier we already wrote about Noctem on DutchMetalManiac. We reviewed their previous album Haeresis<\/em> here<\/a>, we had an interview with their vocalist Beleth, which you can read here<\/a>, and we wrote a live review about their show in dB\u2019s, Utrecht, where they performed together with Wesenwille and Evil Oath. You can read that live review here<\/a>. Earlier this month these Spanish blackened death metallers released Haeresis<\/em>\u2019 successor, and fifth studio-album in total. This new album is titled The Black Consecration<\/em> and is released via Art Gates Records. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Black Consecration<\/em> immediately starts with its title\ntrack, in which Voor’s very raw-sounding drums stand out quite soon, constantly\nfiring at your ears like machine guns, as can also be heard in for example Coven<\/em> and Let That Is Dead Sleep Forever<\/em>. In addition to that there are also\nsome deeper sounding drums to be heard, such as halfway in this title track, at\nsome moments in the already-mentioned Coven<\/em>\nand in Court of the Dying Flesh<\/em>, in\nwhich these deep drums are nicely combined with Varu’s humming bass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those\ncrushing drums and Exo’s and Ethell’s lingering guitars, such as in Court of the Dying Flesh<\/em>, are augmenting\neach other, making this combination this album’s power. Exo’s and Ethell’s\nguitars may sound lingering for the main part of The Black Consecration<\/em>, that definitely isn’t all we’ll hear on\nthis album guitar-wise. For example there is a guitar that you won’t really expect\nin this style of music, an acoustic one, to be heard at the end of the title\ntrack and halfway into Uprising of the\nImpenitents<\/em>. Those parts are very calm, making the transition quite big,\nbut despite this being quite a big step, it’s executed very fluently. You might\nthink that the calm end of the title track is a\npredecessor for the next track, Sulphur<\/em>,\nbut if you do so, you’ll be surprised, because Sulphur<\/em> again pounds very heavily. Uprising of the Impenitents<\/em> is instrumental from the acoustic\nguitar-part on and becomes much heavier and quite sludgy after that part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Black Consecration<\/em> contains a lot of power, with some\nmoments where the discharge of power seems to be even more extreme, such as at\nthe start of Let That Is Dead Sleep\nForever<\/em>, partly due to Beleth’s very deep grunts, which we’ll also hear in All That Now Belongs To The Earth<\/em>, and\nhis first scream in Court of the Dying\nFlesh<\/em>. So, as I already mentioned at some moments Beleth also delivers very\ndeep grunts. Something we can, in addition to Let That Is Dead Sleep Forever<\/em> and All That Now Belongs To The Earth<\/em>, also hear in Sulphur<\/em>, where they reach an even deeper\nlevel. During the chaotic-sounding part halfway Sulphur<\/em> we also hear Beleth perform some very dark, low, clean\nvocals, something he also does in Coven<\/em>,\nCourt of the Dying Flesh<\/em> and closing\ntrack Dichotomy of Malignancy<\/em>. Beleth\ndoes a lot with his vocals for sure, but for the main part his vocals are very\nraw, hoarse screams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With The Black Consecration<\/em> Noctem delivered a very strong, enormously overwhelming and crushing album, which makes The Black Consecration<\/em> very recommended for everyone who likes to listen to extreme metal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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