{"id":92268,"date":"2019-06-07T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=92268"},"modified":"2019-06-07T08:59:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T13:59:38","slug":"violent-manifests-in-a-lightless-necropolis-a-black-metal-mass-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/violent-manifests-in-a-lightless-necropolis-a-black-metal-mass-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent Manifests In A Lightless Necropolis: A Black Metal Mass Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Presenting a pile of black metal for your pleasure<\/p>\n

SARASTUS<\/strong> – ENTER THE NECROPOLIS<\/em><\/h3>\n

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I very much enjoyed Sarastus’<\/strong> debut II – Toinen Tuleminen<\/em> back in 2014, the band’s brand of black metal was sparse and punky in construct but littered with bright melodies. Afterwards, I was left wanting for more for what seemed like a very long time. It was already the next year when the band uploaded “Tulta Vastaan<\/a>” from their tentative third record to YouTube, but the album never dropped. Instead, it was eventually announced that Hukka would not continue to be a part of the band, and the search for a vocalist began. When the announcement was made that his place had been taken by Revenant from the German Sarkrista<\/strong>, I did not know whether to rejoice or lament the choice. On the other hand, he’s proven a capable vocalist – on the other, it meant any future records would be sung in English instead of Finnish, which I felt had lent them much character before.<\/p>\n

Enter Enter The Necropolis<\/em>, now having shed much of the remaining punkiness in favour of a rigid and sturdy footing. This in part has lead to a much darker overall tone than on it’s predecessor. I did not at first believe I’d come to grow as fond of it as I had of Tielle Tuntemattomalle<\/em>, but I seem to have been wrong and it’s climbing it’s way towards my most listened to albums this year. Eschewing the punky playing has only been relative too, “With Hate And Flaming Visions” and “Witness The Earth Descend” for example, still make a good show of this.<\/p>\n