We live in a time when Black Metal music is more alive and the centre of its making isn’t in the far, far North anymore, it has spread all around the globe. Poland again prevails in giving a first class product of a Black Metal sorts and by this I present HERMH. Its latest prophecy is shaped into the musical form by the name of Cold Blood Messiah.
To be honest I didn’t expect anything new, when it comes to Black Metal, but these guys sure surprised the hell out of me. The first track Hairesis is not only one of the best Symphonic Black Metal song I heard in ages, but being the first track of the album, it gives a teaser of the grandness for the whole piece. It has a killing riff that introduces the song, followed by great chants that just make you feel like in a ritual room.
The second track Instrumentum Diaboli starts off with a heroic chant followed by Latin chants and a guitar riff that fits perfectly to the epic, yet damn evil sound.
Eyes Of The Blind Lamb is something I sure didn’t expect to hear on a Black Metal piece. The first minute is swelling with a liturgy of some sorts; nevertheless the conception of adding it to the beginning of an infernal chanting is done in a very clever way.
The follow-ups Lord Shall Be Revealed, I Bring You Fear and Sin Is the Law remain in the same manner of playing: catchy riffs, chanting combined with a evil growl and more Latin text; all just make the tracks a complete litany of evil.
The seventh song on Cold Boold Messiah goes by the name of Gnosis, an instrumental track, acoustic guitars combined with great ambience produced by the synthesizers. Personally it gives me the shivers. It’s beautiful, yet has a mysterious aura and it’s spiced up by the soft female voice you can hear far in the background. It’s just an amazing track!
The last two tracks of the album, Who Can Be Against Us and In My Flesh I See God are the fastest tracks on the album by their consistency. They are lacking chants but are uncompromising and symphonic as the rest of the album. They fall in the same area of music and end this piece with the same force and determination the album began with.
Over all I am surprised to find that there are still bands out there that bring great Black Metal products and by some reason Poland seems to be the country, a Catholic one none the less, fueling them. Be assured that this HERMH album is not an album you’re going buy and regret, it’s an album to buy and never forget.