DEMONS OF GUILLOTINE - Demons Of Guillotine

DEMONS OF GUILLOTINE
Demons Of Guillotine
Art Music Group
8/10





Here’s an extremely impressive package put together by Russia’s finest purveyors of black metal, the notorious Demons Of Guillotine. The song titles and lyrics are all in Russian, but who cares, this band completely rips, and we have posted the English titles above for you to see.

Everything here is grim, dark and powerful, with some excellent guitars by Proteus, as he can rip through Bodom style melodic runs or issue blazing sonic lacerations with ease. He is surely one of the most proficient guitarists in the Russian scene today, shredding the strings with a relentless hatred. Being that the lyrics are in Russian, the band has a different feel than other black metal acts, the Russian language lending itself quite nicely to music of this style. Overall, the band is very thrashy and their sound is bleak and chilling. Zodiak is a mid range screamer that uses fairly wide vocal envelopes and screams mixed with aggressive black chants and invocations.

The sixth track is appropriately named “The Devil’s Dollz”, a grating double kick fueled thrashing panzer attack of hatred that never lets up, while the eighth cut, ‘The Burnt Paradise” contains a dismal sounding break that is melodic and utterly dark. “The Gray Fog” is a highlight of the record as bassist Pulse attacks the four strings with a vengeance. The chorus of this track could be likened to Dimmu Borgir in that it is anthemic in nature, preparing the festival crowds for a crippling occult induction. This track actually has a very melodic vocal passage that is right at home with the band’s insane sound and the Russian chanting sounds extremely cool when coupled with Demons Of Guillotine’s blasting onslaught.

This is a really awesome record that is one of the more original sounding black metal albums of late, largely in part to the way in which the Russian vocal phrasing compliments the music so well. Black metal devotees can’t afford to pass this gem up.

Written By: Shemlarak