__ __ 15 _______ _/ /____ ________ _____/ /_ / __/ _ `/ __/ _ `/ __/ _ `/ __/ __/ \__/\_,_/\__/\_,_/_/ \_,_/\__/\__/ p r e s e n t s Wolfsschrei-Torture_Of_A_Human_Soul-CDEP-FLAC-2006-CATARACT 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 ARTIST : Wolfsschrei STOREDATE : 00-00-2006 ALBUM : Torture Of A Human Soul RIPDATE : 01-16-2015 YEAR : 2006 RUNTIME : 22:08 min GENRE : Black Metal LANGUAGE : English LABEL : Raging Bloodlust Records GRABBER : EAC Secure SOURCE : CD EP ENCODER : FLAC 1.2.1 QUALITY : 1099kbps Avg 44.1kHz 2 channels SIZE : 182.9MB URL : http://tinyurl.com/k2sn49g TRACKS : 3 Files 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 01 Innermost Scenario 6:19 02 Torture Of A Human Soul 8:05 03 Lost In Void 7:44 旼컴컴컴컴켸 22:08 min 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � After listening to this about a dozen times and desperately trying � � to start a review for it, I've come to a certain conclusion about � � "Torture of a Human Soul": this is exactly what black metal sounds � � like today. Not a specific style of black metal- not a � � French-sounding band, a Darkthrone clone, anything like that- but a � � sort of aggregate of black metal's various styles and sounds � � congealed into a whole. People ask for primers on the black metal � � genre and others give them advice and suggestions, usually in the � � canon of classic black metal albums. Wolfsschrei, on the other hand, � � actually sounds like what we know as Black Metal these days. It is � � what you hear when you think of those words in your head. It helps � � as well that it's quite good. � � � � Wolfsschrei plays a German style of black metal that really just � � forms an average of other styles of black metal. The riffs are � � mostly tremolo-based and fluctuate between a Germanic style of � � melody and a somewhat atonal, Darkthrone-style crunching dissonance, � � both tempered with an almost depressive, rainy sort of musical � � texture. Drums are simple and straightforward- slow blasts, � � rock-based depressive sections, and simple fills, while vocals are a � � straightforward screech you've heard a thousand times before. � � Wolfsschrei's music tends to hum and throb with a bleary, modern � � sense of energy, distorted and static to the point of an almost � � complete lack of identity- yet that somehow works. Wolfsschrei's � � music isn't so much meant to be a statement of identity and style so � � much as a very immediate, present sense of what black metal is at a � � certain moment- which paradoxically makes it reflect the genre � � better than nearly anything else. � � � � From moment to moment this music has an immediate, attacking energy, � � where every note seems to replace the one before it rather than lead � � into a narrative whole. The riffs are intense and engaging, but very � � fast, intense, and somewhat intentionally shallow- they're melodic, � � but they don't lead to some great understanding or revelation. They � � ride off the insistent texture of thrash beats and sluggish � � depressive passages without really meaning much more than what they � � immediately are. While "Torture of a Human Soul" is an overtly � � shallow piece of music, what it lacks in depth it more than makes up � � for by knowing its limits and functioning as a wonderful, sort of � � adolescently spirited slab of fast, engaging black metal that exists � � merely to exist and nothing more. � � � � If you're seeking something brilliant and classic, this is not it. � � However, Wolfsschrei's music seems almost more inherently relevant � � due to its total and intentional irrelevancy. "Torture of a Human � � Soul" is going to last forever simply because it was never built to � � last- it's black metal to the core, and I would rather listen to � � this than nearly anything else much of the time. � � � � Mini-album, thus again tagged CDEP. � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 CATARACT: CLOUDING YOUR VISION