Controversial black-metal legends, Mayhem, have just released their latest record Liturgy Of Death (Century Media Records), and with it is a true show of consistency.
While the Mayhem lineup has evolved heavily since its initial inception, for a large slew of reasons, the music has mostly maintained its initial flare, even in the face of experimentation.
Liturgy Of Death expands upon some of the band’s earliest sonic territories, but much more well-produced and significantly more melodic than the band was at its very beginning.
The riffs are fantastic and far from stagnant, Attila Gábor Csihar’s vocals sound young and familiar. While I’m not a fan of the low and somewhat operatic clean vocals we get sprinkled throughout the LP, I can still recognize the ambience and diversity that those moments add to the sound.
It’s quite hard to imagine a band in such an extreme genre that has survived so much controversy and trauma, maintaining their musical integrity, but this album is genuinely pretty damn good.
Liturgy Of Death is not a track-for-track classic, but it is a pretty good show of what a black-metal band in its fourth decade can lay down artistically.
The album consists of eight fairly lengthy tracks, with songs such as “Weep For Nothing” tapping back into the energy of albums like De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, while managing to stay fresh and future forward.
The intrigue and mystique of Oslo, Norway’s Mayhem still surrounds them, and their musicianship and songwriting abilities have certainly only sharpened with time.
Head over to your favorite streaming service and give Mayhem’s 7th studio album Liturgy Of Death a listen, if you haven’t already.
Rating
3.1/5
Favorite Tracks
“The Sentence Of Absolution”
“Weep For Nothing”
Tracklist
- Ephemeral Eternity
- Despair
- Weep for Nothing
- Aeon's End
- Funeral of Existence
- Realm of Endless Misery
- Propitious Death
- The Sentence of Absolution
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