Death.FM - Watain - Casus Luciferi

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Devil's Blood Watain	5:52	52
02	Black Salvation Watain	6:48	88
03	Opus Dei (The Morbid Angel) Watain	5:37	38
04	Puzzles Ov Flesh Watain	5:42	78
05	I Am The Earth Watain	6:04	50
06	The Golden Horns Of Darash Watain	5:45	43
07	From The Pulpits Of Abomination Watain	6:40	47
08	Casus Luciferi Watain	8:43	45

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Watain - Casus Luciferi

By:	Waffen
Date:	2 Sep 2007
Rating:

I don't really know where to start with this album......but here goes.

I don't know about you but as I get older I'm tending to be a bit of a nostalgic twat on occasion. When I finally got into this album (4 years after release) I just couldn't believe it. All my favourite styles from the golden age of Black MEtal are present but jumbled up into Watain's own sound. Imagine early Dissection, Marduk and Mayhem with some atmosphere like early Satyricon and a few Darkthrone moments all baked together at 1000 C in a huge black metal oven. To be more specific the first 2 Dissection albums, Opus Nocturne by Marduk and De Mysteriis.

There is no stopping the fury and darkness of this album and certainly no questioning Watain's ability in song writing.

There are no weak songs here but possibly the weakest are tracks 1 & 3. Inbetween there is the great mid paced 'Black Salvation' which is a great morbid juggernaught rumbling towards damnation.

The track that stands out for me the most is 'Puzzles Ov Flesh' even though I can't stand all this writing of like ov which Behemoth seem to have started. Dosen't anyone learn English these days lol. Its well agressive from the start with riffing blasting away like Autumnal Reaper from Opus Nocturne with some great drumming and changes in riffing. It really is a complete song and the bass lines are great too adding their own flavour of grimness to the mix.

Straight after that you're plunged into the massivley morbid and melancholy 'I Am The Earth' which is packed full of atmospheric goodness and includes more that 100% of your RDA of satanic vitamins.

The next track is fairly straight forward for Watain but then comes along 'From the Pulpits of Abomination' with some great guitar appegios and a fukkin brilliant catchy Celtic Frost/Darkthrone style riff in the 2nd half of the song. Then the album finishes up with the title track which is nothing short of a cheery on the icing for this album.

Unfortunatley Watain haven't got close to the variety and musicianship of Casus Luciferi on previous or current recordings to date. However, they still remain one of the best and (imo) most important acts in the, shall we say, second wave of BM. They're making sure people never forget the rots of the modern scene intentionally or unintentionally.

On the strength of this and the many levels of this album I rate it 5.0

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