![]() ![]() This latest record is tribute to the 22-year Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult heritage, evoking the likes of early Mayhem and Gorgoroth while still staying true to the tried-and-tested recipe of fast, technical playing they first introduced on their now-legendary 1999 Pest Called Humanity demo. And that’s a shame, because Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult are, after over two decades of black metal, a serious force to be reckoned with and Oneilar herself deserves to be taken seriously based on both her vocal and guitar skills, not just her thigh-length hair, or blood-spewing, inverted crucifix-waving stage persona. ![]() Despite a long and proud history of women in metal – including often-cited luminaries like Doro Pesch ( Doro and Warlock), Angela Gossow ( ArchEnemy) and Tarja Turunen ( Nightwish) – female-fronted metal bands regularly get judged by their gender and not the quality of their music. The great tragedy that is likely to befall Mardom ( pre-order a copy here), though, is one that Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult have always faced: their pigeonholing as a “novelty” band within black metal, all thanks to their frontwoman, Onielar. Mardom reinvents no wheels, but the powerful nostalgia it conjures of early 1990s second-wave Scandinavian black metal is a breath of frigid and nihilistic air, thawed in the fires of hell before crushing the ears of all that stand in its way. ![]() It has been well worth the wait, though: the German black metal institution delivers in spades with an uncompromising, orthodox black metal assault. It’s been six years since Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult’s last album, Necrovision, so this latest release, Mardom, is a long-awaited and much-anticipated addition to the War Anthem Records roster. ![]()
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