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BLIND TO FAITH  Discography  CD   (Reflections)   14.99
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���� Finally getting a bunch of the vinyl tracks from Belgian devilpunks Blind To Faith collected all in one place, their new Discography disc combines the band's Under The Heptagram 12", the tracks from the split with Gehenna, and their Seven Fat Years Are Over LP, which is still the only actual full-length album these guys managed to crank out since starting back in 2008. Featuring liner notes from Gehenna's Mike Apocalyse and an industrial-influenced collage art aestheitc reminiscent of Mike Williams's work for Eyehategod, it's an excellent primer to Blind To Faith's vicious blackened hardcore.

���� Made up of members of blackened sludge metallers Amenra, black ambient ensemble Sembler Deah and Dutch gore metallers Bile, Blind To Faith are one of the few true successors to the "Holy Terror" hardcore aesthetic that was first created by bands like Integrity and Ringworm. Their misanthropic metallic hardcore shared many of the same interests and obsessions, their lyrics and sleeve art rife with satanic visions of scorched churches, collapsing societies, ash-blotted skies, and rampant murder, a lends through which all the world is alight in apocalyptic fire.

���� Starting with the Under The Heptagram 12" tracks, the band tears through three tracks (the original vinyl featured a cool etching on the b-side) of some of their most crushing tunes. From the crushing doom-laden chug that churns across the opening of instrumental "The Gateway" and moving through the violent mid-paced thrash of the title track and "Burial Of Mankind", the band evokes the violent black energy of early Ringworm better than just about anyone I've heard. But rather than simply emulate those Holy Terror hardcore legends, these songs additionally fuse that rabid, Slayer-influenced metallic hardcore with a filthy bottom-end weight and some seriously flattening doom-tinged riffage. Punishing stuff.

���� Rawer and more chaotic, the two songs off of the split 7" with infamous bruisers Gehenna were described in my old review of that record as "...all raw and hideous occult-tinged metallic hardcore with a singer that sounds eerily like Ringworm front man Human Furnace. The first song "R.J." offering a mix of snarling violent hardcore with some massive Sabbathy riffage, and the song "Icon" delivering a more blasting, black metal influenced assault...", continuing that doomed, violent vibe of the 12" material, and just as ferocious.

���� The meat of this collection however is the band's The Seven Fat Years Are Over EP from 2009, originally released on the Holy Terror imprint run by Dwid from Integrity. Often considered their sole album but really only clocking in at just about fifteen minutes, it's ferocious stuff, hammering out short, ultra-violent blasts of blackened hardcore with infectious-as-hell riffs and burly, anthemic choruses in classic hardcore punk style, along with weird, almost black metal-influenced dirges, and loads of vicious thrash metal riffage. Like their other releases, this stuff evokes the best of the 90's Holy Terror scene, metallic hardcore stripped down to it's most muscular, murderous impulses.


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