Icelandic purveyors of chaos and wrath,bringer of darkness
Zhrine unleashed their debut full length album entitled “Unortheda” in the
beginning of this month via Season of Mist record label. Zhrine have ended the
trilogy with a bang. Mixing black metal with avant garde together, with even a
bit of progressive and death metal, was always their forte. New album is filled
with more unearthly, astounding,critical acclaimed,heavy, claustrophobic misery
,enigmatic melodies to show just how pathetic the human black metal scene is
when compared to superior beings from the distant stars. This new album is
consist with 7 tracks.Basically Zhrine was formed in 2007 and active till 2014
as “Gone Postal” Later they’ve changed their name as Shrine and active from
2015 as Zhrine. They have been slinging noxious, elevated Icelandic extreme
metal since before anyone was really looking to the wintery island nation
.Certain Icelandic bands were able to gain proper attention and Zhrine appeared
becoming a well established group of bands who can make a fully sound and
creative and with a lot of poetry in his lyrics,with well crafted,distinct
content . Already Sororicide,Svartidaudi,Misthyrming is successful and well
renowned Icelandic band easily “Zhrine” became one of my favorite Icelandic
band with their mystique and epic musical style . now I’m straight diving to
the point about this new album .
This new albums whole compositions are extremely filthy and
unsettling piece of sinister euphoria and unearthly ambiance .when at first
I’ve checked out their first released track “Spewing Gloom” from this album I
was just overwhelmed and to be honest this album was one of my long
awaited,anticipated album of this year
because I haven’t listened this type of harshest slabs of black/death
metal for a long time. This bands each and every members are excellent musician
appreciate their unsurpassed quality,ability and skill. All of their tremendous
effort portrayed in this album in radiant way with excellent diligence and
nailed it. After a multiple listen their latest studio effort infused me with their Unrelenting, powerful,blasting
,overarching,chromatic, chaotic , multi-layered ,ultra-dense,monolithic death
metal musical style laced with blackened,gloomy atmospheric vibe just blew me away . Their musical style have a
hypnotic effect and especially
melancholic style which adds to the more atmospheric kind of black/death
metal but at the same time the vocals and other parts of the riffing is straight
forward furious simultaneously .
This whole album reflects the grand diversity of sound
brought together on this album . It is really not easy to describe their
complex musical style . Black Metal with unconventional influences enjoys
indeed tend quite popular .A natural synthesis of dissonant sounds and
disparate styles all combined in one bold, enlightened display of unbound
creativity. Despite the often fast ,furious,cacophonous ,heavy and barbarous
form of black metal assaults laced with
dark eerie,gloomy and occult atmosphere with a lots of segments of
slower,mid-paced tempo too where Zhrine combines cavernous drum thrashes,
melancholic guitars ,previously mentioned all
aspects enriched this album that
is very powerful,strong and excellent all at the same time along with a
good balance of black/death metal music, melody and
brutality with strangulated ,filthy,thick,doomy riffs work and those effective
rasps simultaneously borrow blackened,gloomy,sinister vibe. I highly appreciate
and embrace this album because of their distinct style .
well, this albums opening track “Utopian Warfare” starts
with sonic assailment,obtuse,grotesque,atmospheric sound followed by an
onslaught of tremulous ,dark eerie, savage riffs and a wall of blast beating ,spectacular
drums laced with aggression,deliberate cadence . Their whole composition and
musical style is impeccable also borrow great atmosphere. They have injected
doom,black metal vibes into furious death metal style.Their musical
representation evolves into souls wandering vicious, crushing and ominous
wasteland . This whole album gives u pitch-black feel from beginning to the end
and I warn you this is a gloomy journey.
Each song have an energy ,fluency and draw a savage landscape .Stand out tracks are
all of them . I personally Cherish Utopian Warfare,Spewing Gloom,The Earth
Inhaled,The Syringe Dance track those are remarkable,appreciable too. Album artwork is atrocious,grisly, indelible
. Overall “Unortheda” whole album is Spectacular,engrossing ,significant,rich .
This album sounds so authentic and a
truly remarkable sonic journey from beginning to end . Indeed this album is
such an true gem of this year . I’ll say this whole album is aesthetics of
death metal .Outstanding another one release of this year so far .This is
highly recommend to add it in your collection .If you are looking for something different, epic this pure
unadulterated black/death metal album is perfect and it will take you on a
journey into another universe . so, enter the void and I am sure definitely u
will come out stronger,darker,gloomier than ever before.
Review done by – Souvik Basu
My Rating – 4.5/5
Published on 20.04.2016
