INQUISITION — Obscure Verses for the Multiverse (review)

INQUISITION — Obscure Verses for the Multiverse album cover Album · 2013 · Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
With a tight lyrical focus on tripped-out cosmic diatribes about floating around in space and the astral plane being amazed and awed by the raw power of Satan, and a musical style that takes old-school Satyricon-flavoured black metal and adds a range of unusual twists to it (in particular, here Inquisition show a tendency to drift into slow, doomy grooves), Obscure Verses For the Multiverse is a solid black metal album which doesn't really stray from expectations either in terms of black metal as a whole or Inquisition's particular schtick specifically. It does, however, make clever use of what's already been written in there in order to produce a sonic experience which feels familiar enough to recommend to Inquisition fans whilst simultaneously fresh enough not to be a mere exercise in pandering to the crowd's expectations.

The eagle-eyed may note that the artwork for this album isn't by Antichrist Kramer, Inquisition's collaborator for the artwork on previous albums; Kramer, for his part, has posted statements here and there claiming that this is down to new label Season of Mist pushing the band into distancing themselves from their connections to the NSBM scene (which Kramer is a vocal and unapologetic supporter of). My star rating for the album is based on the music alone - for what it's worth, the lyrics are entirely too abstract to really express much of a political ideology - and I leave it to the individual listener to decide whether they want to spend money on the album considering the band's past affiliations (and their present distancing from them).
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