Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Dusty Old Demos - Tears Of Evil - The Spirit of the Pagan Temple


Tracklist:
Side A - Side Tears 
1. Culth 
2. Jesus Execution 
3. Death in Pains 
Side B - Side Evil 
4. Darkstorm 
5. Christians Must Die 
6. Sacrifice 

This is the one and only release from the now defunct Polish raw black metal band Tears of Evil. This demo was put out in 1995 and featured ‘Lord Sidragasum’ on vocals and bass, ‘Lord Succor-Benoth’ providing guitar work and ‘Lord Viper the Son of Satan Sperm’ on drums. This trio never went on beyond this project to make any other black metal, or any metal at all for that matter as far as I can tell.

Considering this demo only clocks in at around ten minutes, it is hard to really get an in-depth listen to any of the tracks, all of which seem to have grindcore run times, and generally feature about as many blast beats. It is also fairly hard to even hear the bass and guitar work as for the most part all that can be heard throughout the demo is Lord Sidragasum’s rather dull vocals and the aforementioned blast beats. This leaves the demo sounding more like a ten minute production malfunction that left out riffs, and originality.

To be perfectly honest I generally enjoy this kind of raw basement production, but something about the constant and repetitive drumming, default black metal vocals and lack of riffs really raised my hackles on this one, I would not recommend it, even if it is only ten minutes.  
         
 

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