{"id":53884,"date":"2016-08-29T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=53884"},"modified":"2016-08-29T12:39:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T17:39:38","slug":"nwn-roundup-demonomancywitchcraft-perverted-ceremony-and-demoncy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/nwn-roundup-demonomancywitchcraft-perverted-ceremony-and-demoncy\/","title":{"rendered":"NWN! Roundup: Demonomancy\/Witchcraft, Perverted Ceremony And Demoncy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’re rounding up some of the latest releases from the venerable metal label Nuclear War Now!<\/p>\n

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Demonomancy\/Witchcraft – Split<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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The first new Demonomancy<\/strong>\u00a0material\u00a0since the Italians’ debut full-length back in 2013 opens up this split with Witchcraft. The cavernous eight-and-a-half minute opus, “Archaic Remnants of the Numinous,” spends a considerable time brooding, setting mood and introducing the deranged shouting of Witches Whipping, the band’s main vocalist, before allowing the primitive, mid-tempo riffing to wash over. Did I say cavernous? Because if I did, scrap that. The production on Demonomancy’s side of the split is surprisingly clear; the dry drums and bass can be felt, but barely heard, leaving plenty of room for the massive riffs and vocals that shift between reverberating growls and manic shouting, sometimes even layered together. The band’s second track, “Underground Church”, is a Goatlord<\/strong> original covered at a higher tempo, and follows Demonomancy’s sound enough to sound like their own, but isn’t enough to sate my appetite. Managing to tread a fine line between accessible (by NWN! standards) and kvlt (with its sheer length and weight), I’m left wanting for much more.<\/p>\n

Witchcraft<\/strong> hails from Finland, and has released a number of demos (some of which as Black Feast), and a split. Pairing the two seems a good choice, as Witchcraft builds their music with the same blocks but sounds unlike their Mediterranean counterpart. “At The Diabolus Hour” is nearly five minutes of squealing guitar noise and demonic goat-vocals processed into obscurity. “Grave Immolation” furiously picks up the pace with the familiar, obscured vocals of\u00a0Black Moon Necromancer of Funeral Fornication and\u00a0Goat Prayer of Black Baptism creating a disturbing atmosphere, and painting pictures of a hellish demon sexually violating an innocent goat. The raw and noisy guitars spew riffs faster than the average ear can pick them up, with the rumbling and jangling rhythm section doing their best to keep up. The last track, “Perverted Temple of Goatsodomy,” shifts to a lower tempo, setting the drums at the forefront and crawls onward reminiscent of the aforementioned Goatlord (a tribute, perchance?). The scarce strikes of a keyboard towards the end bring the split to a satisfactory end, and I find myself craving more from both bands.<\/p>\n

Two bands drawing from the wells of blackened death metal, two notably different sounds, that first shared a stage at the fourth NWN! fest in 2014 and now on vinyl. One can only hope next year sees both bands wielding their strength in the form of a full-length.<\/p>\n