Anaal Nathrakh

In the Consallation of the Black Witch 

Candlelight Records

2.5

When I first sat down and give this album a listen I thought that imposable had happened. That I had finally reached my limit with the beloved and sometimes bemoaned Death Metal growls. And was beginning to get a bit sad. By the time I gave it another listen I realized that it wasn't my having a bad day and that this album is just bad. The vox are so hyper produced and raspy that you have almost no hope of capturing what the fuck they are talking about at any given moment. You're left wondering why someone would intentionally leave their album so hard to decipher. But then you get to one of the trax where they mix in some vocal harmonies and then you realize that the vox just aren't good. Where the voices should blend things are a flat and lifeless. Just when you're getting over the shock of how bad the harmonies are they fall back to the reptile screaming. So high pitched and pointless it can cause even the most hardened Metal fan to wince in pain. Musically they seem to only know one or two sets of riffs. Which they use them with reckless abandon. It gets to a point where everything sounds the same. A screaming bleeding mess that goes absolutely no where. These guys are going back to a drawing board and reworking this from the ground up. The only thing these guys are good at thus far is creating melody. And there are some great ones worked in there too bad you have to wade through a bunch of noisy shite to get to it