TWO DOUBLE BANGER TWO KILLER RELEASES FROM BAD MOON RISING RECORDS:
ALBUM REVIEWS: UNEARTHED FROM THE UNDERGROUND; TWO DOUBLE BANGER TWO KILLER RELEASES FROM BAD MOON RISING RECORDS:
MISANTHROPIC IMPERIUM / RISPERIDONIA
Blind Legions (Split)
Bad Moon Rising 惡月上昇 | December 2024
Black/Death Metal | Indonesia/France
Three continents collide in a psychotic maelstrom of remastered hatred on this devastating split between Indonesian blackened death terrorists Misanthropic Imperium and French death metal pharmaceuticals Risperidonia. The Malang-based destroyers revisit tracks from their 2019 *Legion Luxferre* EP, injecting fresh venom into already lethal compositions, while their French counterparts deliver a prescription of old-school brutality with severe side effects.
What makes Blind Legions more than your standard split release is the collaborative chaos—featuring guest vocal annihilation from Nuurisk and cross-pollination with Japanese black metal entity 正殿 across multiple tracks, including "Psychotic Warfare," "Immolation Group-Therapy," and "Self-Enucleation Chorea Ritual." This isn't mere genre worship; Risperidonia's self-described influences of Morbid Angel, Dying Fetus, Cryptopsy, and Origin manifest in technically proficient carnage that feels genuinely unhinged rather than sterile.
The production on Misanthropic Imperium's remastered offerings breathes new malevolence into material that was already caustic, while Risperidonia's contribution lives up to their warning of "serious side effects such as impaired judgment and irreversible brain seizures." This is death metal as pharmaceutical horror—clinically precise yet utterly deranged. The international underground connectivity on display here proves that true extremity knows no borders, only blood.
**FFO:** Morbid Angel, Dying Fetus, Cryptopsy, Portal
**Verdict:** 8.5/10 – Cross-continental collaboration executed with surgical brutality
---
正殿 (SEIDEN)
Black Sacrifice (Live)
Bad Moon Rising 惡月上昇 / SHINSEINEN | December 2024
Black Metal | Okinawa, Japan
Captured in the sweat and chaos of Socore Factory in Osaka last September, *Black Sacrifice* documents something genuinely unique in the black metal underground: Okinawa's sole representative of the genre unleashing their folk-infused darkness in its rawest form. Recorded live alongside Infernal Necromancy, Cataplexy, Dark Fog Eruption, Zombie Ritual, and Zxui Moskhva, this five-track assault was released as a special edition commemorating 正殿's appearance with The True Mayhem for their 40th anniversary in Taipei.
Founded in 2020 by veteran jazz musician Denhiro Ishimine (yes, a grandfather playing black metal), 正殿 channels the spirits of Ryukyu Kingdom folklore through a lens that refuses to conform to mainland Japanese black metal aesthetics. This is crucial—their incorporation of traditional Okinawan instruments like shamisen and taiko drums isn't gimmickry but genuine cultural reclamation through extreme music. The live setting captures the ceremonial intensity of their approach, where ancient Okinawan occult folklore, war, and death converge in a sonic ritual.
The production is appropriately raw, preserving the explosive energy that reportedly made them the "VIP" of previous live appearances in Taipei. Tracks like "玉砕" (Gyokusai) and "赤月の道標" (Talismans of the Redmoon Path) demonstrate how 正殿 balance crushing black metal orthodoxy with elements that could only emerge from Okinawan graves. Their sound sits somewhere between early Mayhem's primitivism and Portal's disorienting avant-garde approach, but filtered through distinctly Ryukyuan spiritual terror.
Having attracted attention from both Japan's Zero Dimensional Records and China's GoatowaRex, 正殿 prove that geographic isolation can birth something truly singular. *Black Sacrifice* is essential documentation of a band operating outside all accepted norms, summoning dead souls from Okinawan burial grounds to curse the living.
**FFO:** Mayhem, Portal, Sigh, traditional Okinawan funeral music
**Verdict:** 8/10 – Folkloric black metal ritual captured in its most visceral state
Bad Moon Rising 惡月上昇 is an extreme metal label from Taipei, Taiwan.
LINKS:
Comments
Post a Comment
Feel free to comment, but anything racist or sexist goes in the bin, as you should also.