The first and only official record from Quebec's Malvery, Mortal Entrenchment in Requiem is one of the most singularly bizarre black metal records I've come across. Ever-shifting, seemingly stream-of-consciousness tremolo picking, nervous, almost jazzy drumming, and a harrowing, theatrical vocal performance -- made all the more chilling by the fact that the man behind it, Amer LeChâtier, committed suicide shortly after the album came out -- that runs the gamut from hushed rasps to high-pitched shrieks to aggressive howls to pained, semi-operatic groans.
Track listing:
1. As Drowning Came from Horizon
2. Drowned in a Dried-Up Lake
3. Suicide the Only Solution
4. I Am the Prophet of Fatality
5. L'Hysterie
6. Incantation Hysterique
It is the most sordid, the cruellest
That which makes the shores pile up
Illusion drinks of what it will lose
Thanks!!
ReplyDeletewooohoooo, what a sick little gem! Right in the vein of Abruptum, early Bethlehem or Todesstoss! Thanks alot for that one!!!!
ReplyDeleteI only like 3 percent of metal (yes, precisely, three). But I SO LIKE the three percent of metal that I have to follow some really bad shit, otherwise I will miss some wonderful stuff. Fortunately (for me) your metal here is much more than three-percent-I-like.
ReplyDeleteMalvery, for instance, who I never heard of. Woo boy!! awesome!, etc. I'm only dismayed that he killed himself. No joke; just awful. But I think think it's going to be years of playing in my house, anyway.