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Genre: brutal black metal

While many black metal artists have taken the music in all sorts avant-garde and symphonic and melodic and whatnot directions, some bands have decided to fully embrace the brutal and aggressive aspect of this genre. One of these bands is the American trio black metal veterans Black Witchery.

Their 2010-album "Inferno of Sacred Destruction" is a pure onslaught of all things evil and demonic. From beginning to end, the album is a flurry of blastbeats and crushingly brutal riffage. While the music comes across chaotic and untamed, Black Witchery actually make considerable use of one of the genre-defining features of black metal - namely, repetition. Between this and the harsh vocals, the listener is indeed thrown into an inferno of destruction.

The songs are suitably short, because this is not the most varied music in the world. Although each song brutal and aggressive in isolation, the album in its entirety might strike some as monotonous and is, unless you are really into brutal black metal, probably best enjoyed a couple of tracks at the time.

Fans of blasting brutal black metal akin to Mayhem are bound to really enjoy this album from beginning to end, as it is full of blastbeats and primitive brutal riffage - just the way this type of music should be.