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08-04-2007
Furze: UTD Review
by ©Scarlet Metal & www.whoresofchaos.com

UTD is the latest collaborative effort of the 13 arcane personalities of Woe J. Reaper going through their paces only to deteriorate into a blakk fugue state..but all is illusion because after all, Furze is just Woe J and his antipodal shadow or so he claims. Each facet of this mad genius seems to have a common agenda in the further deconstruction of third wave blakk metal. Heavily inspired by the raw sound of it’s many second wave selves, Furze syncretizes primitive blakk metal with elements of doom, thrash, psychedelic rock and proto metal. Various erratic aspects of vocals and instrumentation are brought to the forefront of each track as it all unravels through rather atypical production. Guitars and drums deteriorate into breathtaking chaos with the effect being both catalytic and hypnotic.
‘A Life About My Sabbath’ begins as a journey into the blakk sun at midnight via a fastpaced frenzy with a brilliant layering of channeled vocals. Influences of Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Darkthrone, British punk rock, speed metal and Von are present in varying ways throughout. The déjà vu of ‘Demonic Order in the Eternal Fascist’s Hall’ is almost completely derivative of Hellhammer/Celtic Frost and Darkthrone  as guitar lines and riffing further deteriorate, the undead play their own riffs in reverse. The guitar work spirals back and forward in time from the early proto metal era to present day blakk metal. ‘Beneath the Wings of the Black Vomit Above’ contains elements of mainly Darkthrone and Satyricon within the seductive whispering of lost wisdom. ‘The Deeds that grasps to the Candle’s Shade’ has an epic wrathful atmosphere, a ritual opening the portal to the way of inner darkness. ‘Mandragora Officinarum’ is repetitive metal monotony moving into blakk metal sludge jazz fusion. ‘Goatbreath’ kills and is extremely derivative of Darkthrone- so much so that it’s hard to believe Fenriz and Nocturno weren’t somehow involved on this one. A Burzumesque decrepitude takes over the vocals of ‘Deep in the Pot of Fresh Atipodal Weave’ however, it’s just Woe J Reaper and that which walks with him. ‘Djerve Djevel’ harks back to the conjuring of the first notes by the dark masters of late 60’s proto metal (à la Black Sabbath) then returning to a more traditionally blakk guitar mode which then comes
full circle and returns to from whence it came.
 
Highly recommended to both fans of first wave, second wave blakk metal andbeyond-
such as Ulver, Dødheimsgard, Ved Buens Ende, Zweizz and Aldrahn.

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