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For a band that seems fairly well known in the underground, Teitanblood don't have very many releases to their name: one full-length album and six short releases, two of them splits with other bands. The most recent recording "Woven Black Arteries" turns out to be something of a short album featuring just two tracks "Sanctified Dysecdysis" and "Purging Tongues". These guys play a very filthy blackened death metal with sick-as-fuck gurgly vomit vocals and a deranged attitude that pushes the music to an extreme bordering on the hysterical. Bands very like these guys include Antaeus and Otargos from France though Teitanblood have a much wilder and more out-there style.

The term dysecdysis refers to an abnormal shedding of the skin in snakes and lizards so it's appropriate that "Sanctified Dysecdysis" is as reptilian-evil as your local friendly neighbourhood pedo-priest or his equivalent in some other religion, depending on where you live. The general sound of the track is creepy as hell, like the noise of deep-frying live prawns in boiling oil turned up to the point where it turns to static. Guitar chord sequences don't so much as form recognisable riffs or melodies as burn and scorch their way into the brain. Any lead guitar licks that happen here are like demented sparks of a primitive and near-psychotic consciousness in an otherwise instinctive brain. Percussion goes hell for leather while slime monster voices growl and groan and fight for dominance with the occasional scream amongst all that guttural gurning. The song gets more chaotic and wilder as it progresses with more delirious vocals and the boiling guitar noises more insane than ever. Spoken voice recordings are buried deep in the dense music. The wild storm passes leaving rhythm guitars, drums and a hysterical ambience to careen blindly towards what might the edge of a cliff.

"Purging Tongues" starts off theatrically with a sonorous spoken Satanic-priest vocal that might have come straight from the days of the Holy Inquisition: an excuse for the guys to go straight for the jugular again with madly racing drumbeats and a cacophony of reverberating demon voices that might be coming from between your ears. The guitars sound rather more like guitars but that's where the similarity between Teitanblood and most other guitar bands ends: the musicians must be playing their instruments by hitting them with barbed whips instead of the usual metal plectrums. Gabbling in strange tongues as though they're starring in some God-forsaken campy 1970s lesbian-vampire-cannibal-nudity-sex orgy art flick set in a medieval nunnery where all characters are nuns and priests, the band plough through a dense hurricane of black death guitar noise, choppy rhythms and roiling Satanic atmosphere.

You don't love these guys for their musicianship though to do what they do and still hold you spellbound all the way through implies a good grasp of music craft - you love them for their gung-ho take-no-prisoners style of death metal butchery, slaughtering their way through the music and leaving listeners dumbstruck, thunder-struck or just struck dead. The music is dense and chaotic yet not quite all over the shop and most instruments and the vocals are very clear. There's a definite sense of direction, the music is very free-flowing and the demon singing strikes just the right balance between fiendish and deranged on the one hand and camp and theatrical on the other. The guitar noise textures are unlike anything else I've heard, very much like an evil swarm of locusts and wasps from the bottom corners of Hell.

There is some wonderful atmosphere as well suggesting inversions of Roman Catholic Church ritual and it may be that Teitanblood, like some other underground Spanish acts I've heard (Orthodox, Like Drone Razors For Flesh Sphere), are critical of that denomination's historical baleful hold on their country's society.

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Spanish Satanic sadists Teitanblood offer up another delicious treat to be sacrificed upon the altar.

For all you Teitanblood fanboys out there that didn’t have a chance to get ahold of the Purging Tongues E.P. on vinyl, Norma Evangelium and Teitanblood have answered your cries to the dark lord and have packaged Purging Tongues along with another completely new track. I know, I know, I can hear your palms moisten and pulse increase from here, and as if you needed me to tell you otherwise, it’s absolutely fucking epic.

Despite these boys having only released one album thus far (2009’s ‘Seven Chalices’), there is still a healthy amount of material about for you to get your filthy hands on. Teitanblood play black metal or is it death metal? It’s both and neither, it’s Teitanblood, end of discussion. They are one of those rare bands that come along every now and then that manages to draw influence from many different realms and package it into their own brand of nightmarish, visceral sound. Each Teitanblood release is suffocating and dense, as demonstrated perfectly on this compilation.

Compositions for Teitanblood are complex; the drums are maniacal, guitars all over the place, interspersed with random soloing whilst NSK’s vocals howl over the music. Very often it is chaotic and comparisons to Antaeus and Katharsis can be drawn in this respect, an additional parallel can be drawn in the mixing and production, as mentioned before it is dense, it can be hard to differentiate exactly what is happening at times, all that can be sensed is the relentless juggernaut as it rapes your ears. ‘Purging Tongues’ for a long period has NSK just speaking in a ritualistic fashion that makes the music truly unnerving as the sermon being given is a symphony of hellish beauty; you know those horror movies when you hear the devil speak and there’s fucked up music going on in the background? Imagine that except fill it with the most hate and vitriol that you can summon and you’re halfway there. The compilation is a rather long affair in the stakes that there are only 2 songs and the CD clocks in at just under 30minutes. Each song is long, progressive, elaborate and unstoppably barbaric in its onslaught.

Teitanblood seem to be getting lumped in with the ‘War/Bestial’ metal crowd a lot at the moment and whilst yes, the music is extremely ‘brutal’ and harsh I see more in association between a band like this and the other bands on Norma Evangelium Diaboli (there is a reason they’re signed to them, NoEvDia are notoriously picky about acts that they will sign), Teitanblood have a strong aesthetic and their lyrical approach is introspective as opposed to the endless torrent of bestial metal bands singing about War, Goats, Nuclear Weapons, etc. Teitanblood may have the thick chaotic sound that some of these bands do but they execute it with a finesse that for me, none of these bestial bands can match and as I mentioned before it’s possible to hear the influence of bands such as Ofermod (NSK’s also part of them), Antaeus, Katharsis, and Malign.

Even if you’re one of the lucky bastards to own a copy of ‘Purging Tongues’, I highly recommend Woven Black Arteries on two points: You can play Purging Tongues on a CD player now e.g. in the car on your merry jaunts to bury the bodies and secondly ‘Sanctified Dysecdysis’ the new track is worth every penny of the CD itself and undoubtedly this release would sell just as well if that’s all that was being offered.

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..::TRACK-LIST::..

1. Sanctified Dysecdysis 11:48
2. Purging Tongues 15:39



..::OBSADA::..

J - Drums
NSK - Vocals, Bass, Guitars, Lyrics




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