Eerie Art Records, 2006
Genre: Black Metal
1. Mesmerize (Absurd Introduction)
2. Memento Finis
3. Apex of Mockery
4. Phallus Absconditus
5. Mankind Euthanasia
6. Wormz
7. Voice of God (Futile Conclusion)
This is another recording from Lord
Naggaroth, who also released the Devilish Era material and this is also Wolok’s
second full length. At this point I have
to say… I need to stop buying material from this guy. I hate his music. The distro I got this from didn’t say it was
related to Devilish Era, had I known… I never would’ve bought this, though I
will say musically this album is a better Black Metal performance than Devilish
Era. Other than that… this is just
equally terrible and I know this guy couldn’t care less about what a reviewer
thinks as it clearly states in Devilish Era, but I need to start being more
careful of what I buy from this area now.
Okay… I’m actually confused at this
point. I think this musician is
making a random attempt at playing some kind of experimental Black Metal. The “experimental” parts seem to be
restricted to making extremely annoying random noises on the keyboard over
traditional Black Metal sequences.
Things get a bit drone oriented in the track “Mankind Euthanasia,” which
is a twelve minute epic, but other than that the music is your general and
average Black Metal performance with no interesting variations or even sounding
all that special in the first place. The
vocals, as a whole, are nothing to get excited about. In the epic track there’s lots of talking
styled vocals through a processor that are vaguely reminiscent of the spoken
word parts in a Gorgoroth track, but the standard Black Metal vocals, which are
the majority of the album, are so incomprehensible that there is generally no
real purpose to there even being lyrics.
The lyrics are in English for the most part, but this reminds me of
trying to decipher which words are being vocalized on Suffocation’s “Effigy of
the Forgotten,” it’s almost impossible, so even with the lyrics there’s no hope
in possibly following along.
The lyrics for the album, though
incomprehensible in the recording, are by far the most laughable part for me. I’ll first point out that the lyrics for
“Memento Finis” are actually pretty good, too bad they don’t have a good song
to go with in the end of things, but all the others are suitable for a laugh. “Apex of Mockery,” towards the end of the first
verse gets into the coprofagia with “Coprophiliac deeds with the faithful. Swallow the faecal sins in the sake of
humiliation.” I mean I understand the
point of the songs, they’re anti-religious, but when you start talking about a
coprofagia fetish it just becomes a complete joke to me, especially
lyrically. Judging by the quoted verse I
assume all my readers can figure out what it means.
The song “Phallus Absconditus” is what
really put me over the edge. First off
the word absconditus means hidden. Why
do I know this offhand? Deathspell Omega
wrote a song called “Diabolus Absconditus” and Heresi wrote a song called “Deus
Absconditus.” This is it… last one,
Wolok have written about the hidden penis and therefore no more songs about the
hidden anything using the word “absconditus” for the sake of making your titles
sound esoteric by your witty use and command of the Latin language. By giving it this phrase in Latin it appears
to make the foolish attempt at making this seem high-brow lyrically. Look at this line in the song “Nihil vaginal
discharge. Phallic void – the semen of
nothingness.” I’m not even sure what
this is supposed to mean, but from the rest of the song maybe it has to do with
some notion of angel’s raping people… invisible angels, since apparently it is
void and amounts to nothingness. So who
actually cares in the end right?
Definitely not me. Then my, by
far, favorite part in this song is surely “Cumshot of prayers.” This by far evoked the most hilarious image
for me personally. I suppose the overall
point makes sense, but seriously the language use within which it’s written
just cracks me up. “Painful fistfuck of
lies” of course! The literary
genius! The prose! It’s simply astounding. The track “Wormz” starts off great until you
get a little over half way through wherein he presents the incredible verse “We
cum on your creations. We cum on your
dead holy wormz.” At this point I figure
if Lord Naggaroth spent his time composing music rather than figuring out what
he wants to cum all over this would’ve probably turned out to be a pretty good
album overall.
I’m still trying to figure out what in the
hell “Nihil vaginal discharge” means.
Nihil means “nothing” in Latin… so there wasn’t any discharge…and…?? I mean who really cares if there wasn’t
any.
I had higher hopes for this album, until
I found out who the composer was related to in terms of other projects. It has an incredibly awesome cover and it’s
on quite a good label that I associated with putting out good material in the
past, but this thing is either some satirical joke or the author actually thinks
this is serious work, in which case this is just silly. They filter large vocabulary words
intermittently in their lyrics to give them a “deeper” meaning or something to
that nature, but fail miserably as soon as they begin to entertain notions of
“fistfucking” and “cumming” on various things.
The music certainly doesn’t make any amends for this lack of lyrical
creativity and merely makes the entire release a mockery at best. The music, Black Metal wise, is the epitome
of what I think of when I hear someone mention generic Black Metal, but Wolok
try to be different by adding some of the most annoying keyboard effects into
their opus. So in the end it makes up
for one giant forgettable listen. Only
when you replay the album you don’t hear anything new the second time
around. I highly recommend this album be
avoided; it doesn’t really bring anything worth hearing anywhere.
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