How can you be disappointed if Sargeist continue to release masterpiece albums? It is worth waiting for four years if the result is an album like Crawling Feeding the Shadows, an obscure, evil, unfriendly album. There is none of the experimentations and sophistications that are sometimes seen in modern black metal; in its simplicity, Feeding the Crawling Shadows makes you experience the primordial brutality and obscurity that is essential to the purest black metal. The production is raw but matches effectively the general atmosphere of the album.
The first and eponymous song “Feeding the Crawling Shadows” is mostly sung in a low pitched growl, while the second song “In Charnel Dreams” is instead in a more usual high pitched scream; the contrast between growl and scream increases the dramatic tension in “Charnel in Dreams”. This alternation between growl and scream also returns later on the album; it is one of the innovations of Feeding the Crawling Shadows compared to the past. “The Unspoken Ones”, “Inside the Demon's Maze” and “Kingdom Below” stand out for being particularly breathless, but every song is an intense poem of the most extreme, obscure, putrid black metal.
The texts reflect thematically very well the deep obscurity of the album. A must have for true blacksters!
Notes:
Release date: March 31 2014 on World Terror Committee.
Tracklist:
1. Feeding the Crawling Shadows
2. In Charnel Dreams
3. Unto the Undead Temple
4. Snares of Impurity
5. Return of the Rats
6. The Unspoken Ones
7. The Shunned Angel
8. Inside the Demon's Maze
9. Kingdom Below
10. Funerary Descent
Personnel:
Shatraug: Guitars
Horns: Drums
Hoath Torog: Vocals
Vainaya: Bass
Text by Herjann
herjann@unholyblackmetal.com
The first and eponymous song “Feeding the Crawling Shadows” is mostly sung in a low pitched growl, while the second song “In Charnel Dreams” is instead in a more usual high pitched scream; the contrast between growl and scream increases the dramatic tension in “Charnel in Dreams”. This alternation between growl and scream also returns later on the album; it is one of the innovations of Feeding the Crawling Shadows compared to the past. “The Unspoken Ones”, “Inside the Demon's Maze” and “Kingdom Below” stand out for being particularly breathless, but every song is an intense poem of the most extreme, obscure, putrid black metal.
The texts reflect thematically very well the deep obscurity of the album. A must have for true blacksters!
Notes:
Release date: March 31 2014 on World Terror Committee.
Tracklist:
1. Feeding the Crawling Shadows
2. In Charnel Dreams
3. Unto the Undead Temple
4. Snares of Impurity
5. Return of the Rats
6. The Unspoken Ones
7. The Shunned Angel
8. Inside the Demon's Maze
9. Kingdom Below
10. Funerary Descent
Personnel:
Shatraug: Guitars
Horns: Drums
Hoath Torog: Vocals
Vainaya: Bass
Text by Herjann
herjann@unholyblackmetal.com