SARGEIST – tyranny returns LP smoke

Sargeist has always had an interesting atmosphere, and it’s rather hard to describe. Imagine if Mütiilation’s predilections for drugs, suicide, and Satan were celebrated instead of mourned and you have a good idea.
Sargeist’s music is always vaguely disgusting and filthy yet resolutely proud of its own decay-hedonistic and excessive, like Caligula-era Rome. Well, if you want filth-caked black metal, it’s hard to find a better example in the Sargeist catalog than this demo. Sargeist has never sounded so sleazy as on tracks like ‘Anti-Human Black Metal Wrath’, where the strains of ‘Deathcrush’-era Mayhem come home to roost in a short, violently rhythmic track. The production only aids the oily, viscous feeling of these songs, with the murky guitars and drums moving like a sea of raw sewage under the perpetually hissing and howling vocals. It’s definitely a good example of rawness used to aid music rather than detract from it.

Re-issue properly with a complete updated layout released

500x heavyweight marble (milky clear/black) 12″ (180g) in a microtenne innerbag, innersleeve printed, black & white on 220g carton (coated paper); poster black & white, 280x430mm on 150g art-paper, simple jacket, full-color printed on 350g carton, coated paper (semi-gloss), all assembled in a plastic overbag.

Tracks:

1. Preludium: Golden Seed of Father-Sun
2. Anti-Human Black Metal Wrath
3. Night of Sacred Wisdom
4. Dark Fortress
5. Scion of Glory & Pride
6. Interludium
7. The Impaler Prince
8. Sinister Glow of the Funeral Torches
9. Sworn by the White Wolves Blood
10. Iron, Blood & Blasphemy
11. Postludium: Silver Womb of Mother-Moon

Genres: Black Metal

GPSR Information:
Manufacturer:
OSMOSE PRODUCTIONS
1272 Rue Nationale
62140 Bouin-Plumoison, France
osmose(at)osmoseproductions.com