JUDAS ISCARIOT

Release Year: 2021
Artist Origin: USA
Style: intense harsh aggressive black metal

third full-length opus [1997] by the enigmatic Akhenaten, solely responsible for all instruments and vocal recordings of his most important project, was conceived and recorded during his stay in Germany - it fuses old school harsh and aggressive black metal values with a more modern twist, spreading hatred and intolerance in spades, where tremolo riffs and raspy vocals play the pivotal role, transmitting distant and cold feeling while following repetitive model which works effectively hypnotizing and gives the music deceptively simple yet deeply absorbing character, where strict structure and repetition serve as means to create an ascetic but profoundly spiritual sound, maintaining mesmerizing effect until the very end; recent American edition