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I've been waiting a long time for
Teitanblood to unearth another full-length album. I don't know, is 5 years a long time? I guess so.
Whenever the conversation of bestial death metal should come up,
Teitanblood should be one of the first bands uttered, along with a choice few.
Purging Tongues still might be one of my favourite EP's of all time (
I put some words to it back in 2012) and everything else that has been put forth by the band has gallivanted with ferocious cadence over anything else riding under the same banner. There is a certain gravitational immensity behind the atmosphere, an elemental force that churns its way through each track with such barbarity that it invokes something palpable – I'm not talking the same animality that a band like
Revenge or
Irkallian Oracle emit – but something cut from the same cloth with a similar signal stretching upward, it's all together crushing and it's energy is a necessary force in this world of polarities. It's no mistake as to why Fenriz and Nocturno put a
Teitanblood patch on the album cover of
Darkthrone's
Circle The Wagons.
The Baneful Choir has solidified it's spot as one of the albums to be reckoned with this year, all whirlwind heat and spiralling death metal. This album will appear somewhere on my albums of the year.
Teitanblood - The Baneful Choir (bandcamp)
