Band: Aderlating
Title: Spear Of Gold And Seraphim Bone Part I
Label: ConSouling Souls
Distribution: Bertus / Suburban
Release date: April 22nd 2011
Review: CD

Holland-based Aderlating were formed by Mories aka M, also involved with e.g. De Magia Veterum, Gnaw Their Tongues (for the review on the su-pe-ri-or (!!!) 2010-album: check the update on November 26th 2010), Dimlit Hate Cellar, Astral or Soulwound, and all former material (two full lengths, two splits and two minis) got highly appreciated within the most obscure underworlds. It will be the case again with Spear Of Gold And Seraphim Bone Part I, the first part of a diptych; the second part is scheduled for early Autumn 2011.
Appreciation within the ‘most obscure underworlds’ and ‘the case again’ means: this material absolutely won’t reach a vivid audience. This release won’t please huge masses of hysterical fans. But it will be adored by those who dwell within, indeed, the darkest worlds below, at least mentally-musically (or whatever…).
Spear Of Gold … has duration of sixty four terrifying minutes (six titles only!), which makes all this very, very difficult yet interesting at the same time, if you dare. The album opens with Black Emperor At The Temple’s Gate, an industrialised soundscape of Noise and Abruptum-esque morbidity and madness. Descending The Naraka I combines Noise and Industrial as well, yet this composition is less psychotic, yet bleaker and with a comparable monotony. The title track is a monstrous piece: chaotic and apocalyptic Black Metal / Noise, somewhere in between Alpha Drone, Beherit and Gnaw Their Tongues. A Burial On The Slopes Of Mount Sinai is a floating and noisy Industrial / Ambient-piece with a chainsaw-mentality; Engel Der Wrake is the most ritual(istic) and hypnotic composition, and like the title track it comes with a nasty Black Metal-injection and a superb finale. And A New Plaque For Every Triumph, finally, stands for another horrific and industrialised Noise-scape.
Overall interesting yet too repetitive, too primitive, too nihilistic, even for me…
Limitedly recommended…

82/100

Ivan Tibos.