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Lecherous Nocturne - Adoration Of The Blade
Deepsend Records - DSR023 - 2006
By Brandon Strader
Adoration of the Blade is like a sheep in wolve's clothing. It's an album the length of an EP (23 minutes) parading around like some big impressive album. Well, the album IS impressive, though freakishly short, and said sheep is a sheep with steel wool. Lecherous Nocturne have short songs with fast blastbeats and double bass topped off with lower-pitched growls and screams. The riffs are as chaotic as a tornado blowing notes everywhere like baby sheep picked up in a hurricane and tossed mercilessly about the terrain, on top of buildings, into trees, splatted on the ground, pulled out to sea and drowned, and pretty much any other direction you can think of. The songs and album as a whole may be pretty dang short, but the music is spontaneous enough to make up for that.
"Release In Flame" throws notes around like "Flight of the Bumblebee" and is completely over-the-top. The musicianship and performances here are pretty insane, and each song has a powerful intensity that totally makes me forget the album is only 23 minutes. More quality than quantity, I must say. The vocalist tears through each song with his growls and occasional reverb-soaked scream that ascends in pitch as it's being performed! "The Divine Wind" throws in some minor chord progressions amongst the riffing chaos. Seriously, it's so fast and spontaneous, you can't even tell what the heck is being played sometimes. You can hear each note being plucked and some of them are so close together, it almost becomes a mush of dissonant bursts, like bees popping out of a honeycomb or something. Adoration of the Blade has you banging your head and begging for more by the time you get half-way through, yet when it finishes you feel strangely satisfied.
Lecherous Nocturne are definitely worth checking out with this Adoration of the Blade. It's a very exciting listen, and is some fantastic technical-black metal. I guess you'd call it blackened technical death? It's a fine example of where blackened death should be heading in the future, after the line is drawn between blackened death and blackened melo-death, of course. Hear this!
8.9/10
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Official Lecherous Nocturne Website
Official Deepsend Records Website
Deepsend Records - DSR023 - 2006
By Brandon Strader
Adoration of the Blade is like a sheep in wolve's clothing. It's an album the length of an EP (23 minutes) parading around like some big impressive album. Well, the album IS impressive, though freakishly short, and said sheep is a sheep with steel wool. Lecherous Nocturne have short songs with fast blastbeats and double bass topped off with lower-pitched growls and screams. The riffs are as chaotic as a tornado blowing notes everywhere like baby sheep picked up in a hurricane and tossed mercilessly about the terrain, on top of buildings, into trees, splatted on the ground, pulled out to sea and drowned, and pretty much any other direction you can think of. The songs and album as a whole may be pretty dang short, but the music is spontaneous enough to make up for that.
"Release In Flame" throws notes around like "Flight of the Bumblebee" and is completely over-the-top. The musicianship and performances here are pretty insane, and each song has a powerful intensity that totally makes me forget the album is only 23 minutes. More quality than quantity, I must say. The vocalist tears through each song with his growls and occasional reverb-soaked scream that ascends in pitch as it's being performed! "The Divine Wind" throws in some minor chord progressions amongst the riffing chaos. Seriously, it's so fast and spontaneous, you can't even tell what the heck is being played sometimes. You can hear each note being plucked and some of them are so close together, it almost becomes a mush of dissonant bursts, like bees popping out of a honeycomb or something. Adoration of the Blade has you banging your head and begging for more by the time you get half-way through, yet when it finishes you feel strangely satisfied.
Lecherous Nocturne are definitely worth checking out with this Adoration of the Blade. It's a very exciting listen, and is some fantastic technical-black metal. I guess you'd call it blackened technical death? It's a fine example of where blackened death should be heading in the future, after the line is drawn between blackened death and blackened melo-death, of course. Hear this!
8.9/10
UM's Review Rating Scale
Official Lecherous Nocturne Website
Official Deepsend Records Website
