Vice, Suffering and Destruction via the French...again

What is it about the fucking French that has them churning out some of the fastest, loudest and most venom(ous) black metal the scene has witnessed since the days of De Mysteriis... and A Blaze...??? Search me...but along with Deathspell Omega, Glorior Belli and the newest addition to my personal collection of audio blasphemy Haemoth, I've been witness to some evil fucking music.

Formed in 1998 in the Vernouillet area of Paris, Haemoth proclaimed their lyrical them to encompass such broad black metal themes as...Satanism, occultism, misanthropy and pain. Their biography reads as such and is word for word.

"Haemoth support all that can contribute to the ruin of the human being, every form of vice, and don't give a fuck to the means used to reach that point.
Any form of vice, destruction and hate have to be preached.
Haemoth encourages every act, physical or spiritual which could carry to the declin, blasphemy or pain."

...how can you go wrong with a proclamation like that? There last full length, Vice, Suffering and Destruction delivers the darkness, evil and production you'd expect from a band touting such hatred. And if that wasn't enough, the CD is limited to 1,000 copies worldwide and the LP to 444 hand numbered copies, (why they didn't do 222 more and make it really "kvlt" we may never know).

It's about fucking time BM got hateful again...you see, for a while there, it seemed that all those veterans of the old school with very few exceptions were so busy creating "art" bands or making "progressive" statements with there music that all the hate was left out, all the satan...you know...all the elements that make black metal...black...and while we still have some great new albums by Mayhem and Darkthrone and even though you do get some "artsy" stuff from DsO, there is no denying that Glorior Belli, DsO and Haemoth are bringing the goat worship and spite back to those of us who my be weary from years of Arcturus cloning.

(((03)))