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Matricide - "Holy Virgin" MCD
(UHR 005)
1. Demonseed [ MP3 ]
2. Black Funeral Poison
3. Perditor
4. Holy Virgin
Reviews:
Unholy Cult
No matter how contradictory or interchangeable, Despair, Satanism, Nihilism, and Wrath are among the adjectives that can be used to describe quality Black Metal. Matricide is a band fusing together sonic guitar play with flesh raw production in their EP ‘Holy Virgin’ to the point they have carved a niche for themselves in an underground plagued by clones.
Matricide is an enrapturing group that captivates via a literal shock wave of distorted strings held together by timely drums. Each track is infused with chaotic serpentine melody, and hard riffing as if Lucifer is slithering and burrowing in your body. The songs are packed with a remarkable contrast between lively droning reverb treble via 4 and 6 strings, and cadaver freezing production leaving a sense of despair. Tight spiraling guitar assonance gives the music a sinister style that is as harmonious as it is frightening like having sex with a stunning lifeless girl. The drums have that patented Darkthrone beating, but it gives Matricide’s music a weird sense of urgency as if your ears are plummeting into a swirling black hole with your body stretched out beyond in surly gravity.
What I enjoy most about ‘Holy Virgin’ are the vocals. They almost laugh against eardrums in their raspy snarling tonsil delivery. But what is most striking is how the throat almost seems to being giving a narrative as opposed to singing. This method makes it seem like I am hearing evil poetry uttered from the maggot-infested mouth of a dead writer of Satanic lore. Most invigorating is how the vocals seem to speed up the music; especially the wrath like double kick tapping across my spine.
Matricide is a band that proves Black Metal is not moribund. They are uncompromising and this notion is especially exquisite in a world where Nihilism is lacking. Buy this album and play it loudly, for the only true rebellion that exists is within the mind, but hearing ‘Holy Virgin’ is enough to make one believe, however temporary, that burning a church will set the world free of oppression.
- Mike Lidia
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