Xasthur - Defective Epitaph (Digipak CD)
The next tome of XASTHUR's grim oeuvre: Defective Epitaph. As misanthropic as it is totally engaging, hypnotic and groundbreaking, this new album re-confirms that Malefic is a black metal visionary.
Details
- Artist: Xasthur
- Country: United States
- Genre: Black Metal
- Year: 2007
- Label: Hydra Head Records
- Format: Digipak
- Catalogue no: HH666130
- More info: External
Track listing
- Soulless Elegy
- Purgatory Spiral
- Cemetery of Shattered Masks
- Malignant Prophecy
- Oration of Ruin
- Legacy of Human Irrelevance
- Dehumanizing Procession
- Funerals Drenched in Apathy
- Worship (The War Against) Yourself
- Memorial to the Waste of Life
- The Only Blood That Pours is Yours
- Unblessed Be
Review
The whole album is much like a grim portrait of the human soul, and after the somewhat disappointing effort of Subliminal Genocide, Defective Epitaph is a welcome return to form and variation that Malefic built his reputation on. Malefic uses his paintbrush and canvas to paint a picture of black and grey and just when you believe you are safe from the unending terror of nihilism Malefic appears, in the listener's room with his paintbrush and begins to cover the listener's mind with the paint of absolute horror, the colors of a bleak future. Be wary, for this ground you tread on may fall from beneath you, leaving you with nothing but a gripping sense of loss and the ending torture of Malefic's genius work. - Metal Observer 5/5