Black Metal.

Checking out 'What is Fit to Burn' now on youtube, sounds great. :kickass:
I'm glad that some people have decided to check it out. A lot of the time this sounds like the band Hate Forest should have been. They write songs instead of just riffs and they use tempo changes well. Demo recording provides a looseness in opposition to the robotic-at-times Hate Forest. I really wish "The Stench of This Rot" was available in some form online. You can really tell how much thought as gone into the recording. One of the most effective uses of lyrics I've heard in black metal. Lyrics tend to be woefully irrelevant when no words can be made out, but when they are fairly clear they can greatly enhance songs, and it's done to great effect on this song in particular. Other techniques I liked included taking parts that would typically call for a clean - if not acoustic - sound, and distorting them in an especially filthy manner. Guitar noise and feedback is used effectively throughout. The build to the climax of the song is brilliant; repeating "I hate the stench of this rot", while two guitar tracks approach like buzzing flies. Even the interludes are far, far more interesting than the typical fare.

I know it's one thing to be enthusiastic about a release, but I feel I have to be pretty loud when it comes to something that's nearly unavailable and no one else is going to speak for it at the time being.

Here's a pretty readable interview too: http://www.canadianassault.com/maledicereinterview.htm
 
I would highly, highly recommend Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul which is goddamned fucking brilliant.

Explain to me, in your own words (300 words or less, double spaced), what is so great about this album. I'm able to get into some very inaccessible black metal but I can't get into this album yet. Sometimes it takes somebody else's insight for me to "get" what is going on in a certain album. Can you do this for me? Because I want to like this album.
 
Explain to me, in your own words (300 words or less, double spaced), what is so great about this album. I'm able to get into some very inaccessible black metal but I can't get into this album yet. Sometimes it takes somebody else's insight for me to "get" what is going on in a certain album. Can you do this for me? Because I want to like this album.

Plenty of people on M-A have done what you ask and I agree with most of them. It sounds very fucked up, wrong and retarded. It pretty much sounds like he basically has no idea how to play music. But it's awesome anyway, the atmosphere, the tone of everything and the songwriting..."Through the Funeral Maelstrom of Evil" ALWAYS does it for me. That acoustic part, disjointedly placed in the song, is so goddamn perfect.
 
just ordered it on Ebay... pricey but I'm hoping it will be worth it. I love every album they've released.

You won't be disappointed. It's better than Weltanschauung, in my opinion.

Just picked it up. Fucking beautiful work of art.

Easily in my top ten for 2009.

Agreed. And the clean guitar solos in "My Dream Islands" don't sound out of place at all; they just sound perfect. So melodic and atmospheric, I love it.