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AXNAAR  Anart  CASSETTE   (Legion Blotan)   6.00


The little community of artists that orbit the Legion Blotan label and the band Sump might be small in number, but man can these guys crank out a ton of amazing fucked-up black metal and noise. I've just started to follow all of the different projects that have sprouted from this camp over the past year, and I'm still discovering filthy, previously unheard music that keeps knocking my skull off. A lot of the bands that have formed around Legion Blotan involve label head George Proctor, but Axnaar comes from the other guy who plays in Sump, Gareth Howells. This debut tape from Axnaar pounds out eight songs of extremely low-fi, skuzzy black metal primitivism that leans towards the punk-influenced end of the spectrum, though not as much as Sump. It's simple, raw thrash, drawing from the early second wave black metal outfits, but turning the noise and hiss factor way up, bathing the atavistic BM and two-chord hardcore riffs in a thick volcanic coating of tape-murk, the guitars sometimes disappearing into a turbulent fog of buzz saw noise and snarling chaos. There's a couple of spots where it almost turns into a Wold-esque wall of black static. From what I've read this is apparently a band that Howells did before Sump, but fans of that band will find lots of similar evil barbarism wedged into this short tape, as will fanatics of all of that noisy blackened scum-metal that I've been raving about (Luciation, Malveillance, etc).

Released in a limited edition of 300 copies.


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