After more than two years of waiting, Misotheist is back.
Founded in Norway by B. Kråbøl (vocals, Enevelde), the band offers us For The Glory Of Your Redeemer, its second album.
The heart of the project is fed by Black Metal roots, and those three songs are an excellent example. Each note is full of a visceral blackness, each howling smells hatred, and the melting seems to be unreal as it is oppressive and cold. Rope and Hammer offers a dissonant and intriguing introduction before the rhythm explodes. If it’s your first time, it will be a hard one, but those sharp sonorities are delightful, as well as the softer parts that feed this dark violence. Benefactor of Wounds stays on this contrast between fast riffs, gruesome howlings and some dissonant leads as well as softer parts that smell death. A break on the middle of the song leads us to a suffocating rhythmic, that progresses without letting us breath anything except this sweet blackness that invades us before Acts of the Flesh, the final track. An introduction allow us to make the transition between the previous song and this one, then a bass guides us to the murky and lacerating mixing. If the first part only counts on pure violence, some more ambient and worrying parts also await us, drawing in all Black Metal aspects’ intensity. The song is ice-cold but heady, letting dissonant melodies accompany us until the very last second.
Misotheist perfectly embodies Norwegian Black Metal. Dark, dissonant, heady, terrifying and cold, For The Glory Of Your Redeemer find its place among with the style’s keystones albums, while offering a new gruesome approach of an ageless music.
95/100