Three albums in, and the extremity doesn't slow down one iota for Perth-based black metal band The Furor. If anything, their sheen of raw professionalism amidst a sea of sonic power only adds to the complete aura of brutality and evil that rubs off every track.
The band consists of just two men - Kill Machine, who has guitars and bass covered, andDisaster, who handles the drums and vocals. Formed in 2002 and with six years behind their last release, Advance Australia Warfare [2005], 2011's War Upon Worship strikes the right note upon the first track's entry.
Let this be said about the eight tracks on this album - where song structures and rhythms remain similar throughout, the real key to this album lies in the dynamics of how it was recorded, and how such extreme music sounds being played by only two people.
Before The Furor, I had heard only one black metal band with two men at the reins, and that was Inquisition, and while I love that band, it truly is great to see two men playing black metal that didn't need to be restricted in its' complexity or technicality because of the number of people in the outfit [not that Inquisition's music was restricted, just simple so as to be played live with general ease]. The Furor doesn't ease up in this regard, and the album is a totally force of brutality.
The guitar work is somewhere smack-bang in the middle of third-wave black metal and death-grind; violently fast but still discernible in the mix. Modern black and death metal just doesn't cut it if the band hasn't put the effort into producing it and engineering it correctly, and this band seem to have understood that very well. And just when you think the songwriting techniques they employ become stale and very same-oldish, all it takes is the breakneck pace of the music, with its definite human element behind the composition, to pickWar Upon Worship back up and make it pleasing to the ears.
War Upon Worship is out now through Prime Cuts Music.
Album: War Upon Worhsip
Release: June, 2011
Track Listing:
- Vengeance Upon Golgotha
- Hammers of Masters
- Call me Doom!
- Supreme Righteous Mauling
- Rebirth Mark
- Auras of Ice
- Unholy Supremacy
- Pain Profound
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