Backtrack and Do It Again Bowling for Soup
I took one await at the encompass for "Rebirth Past Blasphemy" and thought: "yeah, this is going to be black metal." So I had a expect at the song titles.
The first one is "Fucking Speed and Darkness" then at that place's also "Devil'south Excrement", "Ascent Scum" and "Escape The Grave" amongst others.
And I thought "yep, this is going to be black metallic".
Shows what I know, actually. Which, equally the theme tune for Henry's Cat, put it and then memorably on the children's cartoon I used to watch growing up, is everything about nothing and not too much nearly that….
So we'd best backtrack a little.
Midnight isn't and so much a ring, equally a ane homo detest automobile. Athenar, bases himself in Cleveland and he makes heavy metal. He makes heavy metallic as if information technology's 1982, simply he makes heavy metallic so raw, so punk, so filthy and yes, and then righteous that yous best believe you aren't going to resist this if yous've ever banged your head.
From the get get, the vicious "Fucking Speed And Darkness", this is clear about what it is. It is unapologetic, heavy, but actually, it'south catchy. Ok, so he'southward spitting the lyrics at you like they've come up from hell itself, but they aren't growled. They are sung. And you tin can – if you lot and then wish – sing along.
That'due south true everywhere, and information technology sounds on the championship track, equally if he's decided that Fe Maiden'south debut wasn't punk plenty, so he gargles sandpaper and sets that right, "Escape The Grave" besides merely gallops. To wherever. It'due south not bothered. And, by this stage neither are y'all. You lot're either in this fanclub by at present, or y'all've turned off. I am betting at that place won't exist any in between.
"Devil's Excrement" sounds pretty much like you imagine it'southward going to – and the guitar lines are and so sharp, they'd hurt like hell if yous shit them out – but then, excrement is central to this. As Midnight points out himself, when writing the album, he "ended information technology again with complete and utter disgust for humans in general, only then you want that to come out of yous. Just like you accept a poop and y'all take a pee, you want the rotten shit to come out of your trunk, considering if yous proceed the rotten shit in your body, information technology'll rot y'all internally." (these are 18-carat words from an interview he did for his record visitor)
That, actually is spot on as well.
The aforementioned "….Scum" hammers out its Priest fantasies, while "Warning From The Reaper" starts with a solo, and so gets bonus points, because ace songs always do, and is glorious, unreconstructed and vile heavy metal.
2 minutes of bile is dressed up every bit "Cursed Possessions", and "Raw Assault" – never has a song been better named – dials information technology up even further, and rubs common salt into the wounds for skilful measure, just for fun. It does sound a fiddling similar a NWOBHM track, just only if Motorhead were playing information technology with Slayer.
"The Sounds Of Hell" is another blitzkrieg raid, and lets not pretend that this is nuanced or does light and shade, because it doesn't. It's glory, really is that information technology never bothers to be polished, finishing with "You lot Drag Me Through Burn" and sounding like information technology would enjoy the experience.
Often I use the phrase "Arena Set" in reviews. This is the antithesis. This sounds like a metal band doing demos, that they'd have been scared to put out because they were too raw. Arenas? This is ready for the surreptitious dungeon. Warts and all? Doesn't encompass it. This is a weeping sore. There's a moment before the solo in the last song where Athenar yells: "burn down you bitch!" and it is the most metal thing for years.
"Rebirth Through Blasphemy" is just amazing. Accept that however you lot want to.
Rating nine/10
Source: https://maximumvolumemusic.com/review-midnight-rebirth-by-blasphemy-2020/
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