“Black Winter” is the second offering of creeping hellfire from the Nevada thrashers BLASPHEMOUS CREATION. Picking up in fine fashion where the debut “Rest in Pieces” left off, this is more heavily German influenced blackthrash with a slightly elevated black metal stance than before.
I would still call it frenzied old school thrash though. Jackhammer drums that mostly thrash (a few blasts appear) are in a constant battle with swirling riffs of the face melting variety that ride atop a tempo and structure that is constantly speedy and full of twisting and turning. Ghostly solos that sound like they were lifted from an old SODOM rehearsal make an appearance throughout this 21 minute hellfukk.
The vocals of Fleshgrinder are inhuman shrieks that belch forth like a warning of irreversible armaggedon…I like how during the course of the disc his delivery of pitch black death hangs on at the end of many vocal lines and very suddenly drops into a death metal vocal range before coming to an abrupt stop.
Like I said before, I detect more of a black metal influence here but with numerous listens I think its mostly due to the more trebly production when compared to ‘rest in pieces’. That one was more bass and reverb-laden, this one concentrates on more of the high end and the mids.
If ya dig shit the original German Thrash scene (and extreme 80’s thrash in general) you can’t go wrong with BLASPHEMOUS CREATION!
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