ORANSSI PAZUZU

Release Year: 2022
Artist Origin: FIN
Style: mesmerizing psychedelic post black metal

The Master’s Claw is more aggressive and even more oppressive record [2020], where psychedelic, paranormal vision is employed not so much for wandering but for constant pressure, built on stricter rhythms and mechanical pulse: black metal accents cease to be a ritualistic backdrop and instead become an active, sharpened force, while the music takes on industrial shades shaped by dense synthesizer drones and nervously twitching guitar sound, creating uneasy, paranoid atmosphere with certain passages repeating to the point of exhaustion, and vocals assuming the role of yet another instrument, so the entire opus functions like a closed, claustrophobic mechanism that demands endurance from the listener but rewards it with a hypnotic, almost hallucinatory effect, emphasizing merciless, mind-irritating character of this distinctive collective; recent German gatefold sleeve double black 180g vinyl edition comes with an etched with band logo side D