Review by adhlactha on May 3, 2020.

Is there something more medieval and darker than the Blut Aus Nord’s album Deus Salutis Meæ, but in a pure sense of modern times? This album is a real joy for those who truly enjoy such mesmerizing and raw darkness. Even with this kind of dissonances and disharmonies, it is logical and complete musical album with no boundaries in extreme music genre. And even with the love of French for innovations (in music as well), Deus Salutis Meæ can’t be counted as one more avant-garde black metal record.

So what is so unique with this record? The band intricately combines the raw black attitude with psychedelic background, but industrial moments visibly add some noise to the record. The dark and creepy introductions (like whole instrumental songs as well) are long enough to prepare you for ultimate heaviness, but even their ambient passages are created to affect you psychologically. And the multiple use of vocal layers intensifies the blackness and eeriness. The screams and whispered emotional shrieks just finish off this total atmosphere of dark destruction. There is no vitality in this record, but still it’s dynamic, even if rhythms vary from almost inactive abstract ambient compositions to energetic and fast black metal fury (like on 'Apostasis') with shrieking guitar solos. There are special effects, and it’s done purposefully to reflect more canonical black metal sound; of course it’s not so raw as for example on Darkthrone’s records, but nonetheless there you won’t find cleanliness on the sound. Frequent stillness almost guides the album on doom metal path, though there is more black metal influence, but the band never chased to fit in musical styles’ rules. Technically the compositional structures are complicated, so that adds the whole abstract progressiveness. Everything is important here – raw sound, noise elements, multiple vocals of Vindsval, disharmonic and atmospheric ambience, because the entire complex creates this hopeless and horrifying atmosphere with no compromises. It’s built on contrasts, so that’s why this record is so deep and emotional (but only in a dark sense).

French extreme music has always progressed in unique and individual pattern, even with Les Légions Noires they created their exceptional black metal (but of course under influence of Norwegian black metal), and now even more bands break the boundaries of style. And Blut Aus Nord on the record Deus Salutis Meæ proved that they are one of the most intriguing and strong members of European experimental extreme community.

Rating: 9.3 out of 10

Review by adhlactha on May 3, 2020.

Is there something more medieval and darker than the Blut Aus Nord’s album Deus Salutis Meæ, but in a pure sense of modern times? This album is a real joy for those who truly enjoy such mesmerizing and raw darkness. Even with this kind of dissonances and disharmonies, it is logical and complete musical album with no boundaries in extreme music genre. And even with the love of French for innovations (in music as well), Deus Salutis Meæ can’t be counted as one more avant-garde black metal record.

So what is so unique with this record? The band intricately combines the raw black attitude with psychedelic background, but industrial moments visibly add some noise to the record. The dark and creepy introductions (like whole instrumental songs as well) are long enough to prepare you for ultimate heaviness, but even their ambient passages are created to affect you psychologically. And the multiple use of vocal layers intensifies the blackness and eeriness. The screams and whispered emotional shrieks just finish off this total atmosphere of dark destruction. There is no vitality in this record, but still it’s dynamic, even if rhythms vary from almost inactive abstract ambient compositions to energetic and fast black metal fury (like on 'Apostasis') with shrieking guitar solos. There are special effects, and it’s done purposefully to reflect more canonical black metal sound; of course it’s not so raw as for example on Darkthrone’s records, but nonetheless there you won’t find cleanliness on the sound. Frequent stillness almost guides the album on doom metal path, though there is more black metal influence, but the band never chased to fit in musical styles’ rules. Technically the compositional structures are complicated, so that adds the whole abstract progressiveness. Everything is important here – raw sound, noise elements, multiple vocals of Vindsval, disharmonic and atmospheric ambience, because the entire complex creates this hopeless and horrifying atmosphere with no compromises. It’s built on contrasts, so that’s why this record is so deep and emotional (but only in a dark sense).

French extreme music has always progressed in unique and individual pattern, even with Les Légions Noires they created their exceptional black metal (but of course under influence of Norwegian black metal), and now even more bands break the boundaries of style. And Blut Aus Nord on the record Deus Salutis Meæ proved that they are one of the most intriguing and strong members of European experimental extreme community.

Rating: 9.3 out of 10

Review by adhlactha on May 3, 2020.

Is there something more medieval and darker than the Blut Aus Nord’s album Deus Salutis Meæ, but in a pure sense of modern times? This album is a real joy for those who truly enjoy such mesmerizing and raw darkness. Even with this kind of dissonances and disharmonies, it is logical and complete musical album with no boundaries in extreme music genre. And even with the love of French for innovations (in music as well), Deus Salutis Meæ can’t be counted as one more avant-garde black metal record.

So what is so unique with this record? The band intricately combines the raw black attitude with psychedelic background, but industrial moments visibly add some noise to the record. The dark and creepy introductions (like whole instrumental songs as well) are long enough to prepare you for ultimate heaviness, but even their ambient passages are created to affect you psychologically. And the multiple use of vocal layers intensifies the blackness and eeriness. The screams and whispered emotional shrieks just finish off this total atmosphere of dark destruction. There is no vitality in this record, but still it’s dynamic, even if rhythms vary from almost inactive abstract ambient compositions to energetic and fast black metal fury (like on 'Apostasis') with shrieking guitar solos. There are special effects, and it’s done purposefully to reflect more canonical black metal sound; of course it’s not so raw as for example on Darkthrone’s records, but nonetheless there you won’t find cleanliness on the sound. Frequent stillness almost guides the album on doom metal path, though there is more black metal influence, but the band never chased to fit in musical styles’ rules. Technically the compositional structures are complicated, so that adds the whole abstract progressiveness. Everything is important here – raw sound, noise elements, multiple vocals of Vindsval, disharmonic and atmospheric ambience, because the entire complex creates this hopeless and horrifying atmosphere with no compromises. It’s built on contrasts, so that’s why this record is so deep and emotional (but only in a dark sense).

French extreme music has always progressed in unique and individual pattern, even with Les Légions Noires they created their exceptional black metal (but of course under influence of Norwegian black metal), and now even more bands break the boundaries of style. And Blut Aus Nord on the record Deus Salutis Meæ proved that they are one of the most intriguing and strong members of European experimental extreme community.

Rating: 9.3 out of 10

Review by Alex on October 23, 2019.

Due out for release November 29th 2019 through Invictus Productions and Final Agony Records, Human Agony bring an arsenal of riffs and thunderous drums to raise carnage with their sacrilegious, Putrescence of Calvary. This unit demolishes both weak and those boasting to be strong with an uncompromising rage. immediately you will notice the Revenge, Blasphemy, Conqueror and Death Worship markings all over the body of this primal force but not to fooled, Human Agony possess a dimness natural to their makeup. I was pleased by their 2018 effort Goring Christ, what a blast that record was though I (thought it could be better); filled with hate, dispelling misery and turmoil, relentless in its destructive ways, just a well wrapped package of vilification.

Now here in 2019 as the year comes to a close, Putrescence of Calvary sits awaiting the order of affliction; comprised of new blasphemies, and 'Eviscerated for Ritual' which was featured on their Methgoat and Striations splits respectively, this flesh storm is the band awakened to the true potential of their power. If you like the wails of disaster then these are the tunes for you. Calibrated with the admiration for the craft, this effort amputated with old and newly developed abominations fetches about the famine embedded into their style of playing. Digging beyond the flesh, no man is safe from attacks the likes of 'Corpse Wound of Antichrist', 'Unwilling Blood' and 'Doctrine of Cruelty' all intertwined to deliver a unified overpowering capsule of terror. By now the Canadian war metal arena is overwhelmingly polluted and the looks of it being cleansed are nonexistent. With blasphemy being the primary contaminant spawning many un-treatable symptoms, it's no wonder a band the likes of Human Agony would emerge.

It really does not matter how much I've had of bestial black death metal to consume, I can't get enough, there's always a band that's gnarlier the last, it's a deep hole that seems to have no bottom this war metal thing with each new depth darker than the prior. Putrescence of Calvary is just insane, sounds like an army of lunatics charging your way. Opening the ceremony with an Introduction of tortured screams, they emphasize and set you up for the agony to follow with blasting barbaric fury underlined by a technicality and rhythm intrinsic to a Revenge or Conqueror. Their influences are represented with pride on Putrescence of Calvary, it's hard to not hear the inspired vocals of a J Reed (Revenge) or the apocalyptic sounds of a Death Worship's wrecking strings and drum combination. As stated before 1 of the tracks on Putrescence of Calvary is an old recording but serves as worthy support for the new installments which by the way echo the tongue of zero-tolerance war metal butchery. Get this record by Human Agony, Putrescence of Calvary is skin peeling, flesh ripping inhumanity.

Rating: 8 out of 10