Black Fire "Between The Eternal Flames Of Black Fire" CD

There's something about a great deal of South American black metal that makes it... trashy, I suppose? Black Fire is a trashy band. Their production is bad, their songwriting is blunt and totally lacking nuance, and their instrumental ability is questionable to say the least. Even their album cover is cheesy- the Photoshopped flames are just painful to look at. I'm slowly getting to a place where merely sucking isn't a substitute for actual amateurish charm, and I'm afraid that Black Fire slide more on the side of the suck. Still, I can't lie and deny that there's not something to this which makes it tolerable to listen to; it could just be my love of raw, amateurish music, but I like to think that there might be something deeper to this stuff which makes it immediately appreciable.
I get a certain earliest-Bathory vibe from this music, probably in just how binary and sort of intentionally dumb it is. Black Fire makes black metal that sounds like black metal, which is to say that it sounds sort of like Scandinavian black metal but arbitrarily watered down. It doesn't have a great deal of personality: the song structures are repetitive and based off just a few basic parts each, the riffs are a mix of Norwegian superstars and an almost Heirdrainesque random quality, and nothing about the package really gives you the sense that they put a great deal of time or effort into anything. It's very obvious that certain things are on this album just because they're "supposed" to be there- "Black Veil of Tragedies" isn't on the album because they felt like making a slow song. They made it because, as a black metal band, they're supposed to have a token slow track. It's a very inartistic piece of art.
Still, there's something appreciable to a bunch of dumbass Colombians being so enthusiastic about Satan and lame music. The awful, clumsy drumming is just as much of a plus as it is a minus, and on the odd occasion the band will stumble onto a riff or musical passage that's surprisingly compelling. The best element is probably the vocals, which are delivered with a pretty substantial ferocity- I'm convinced, at least. Still, anything good I say about this music was probably a happy accident or sheer luck rather than an intention of the musicians- it's not music that has had a great deal of thought put into it, and frankly, I'd feel dumb asking for any. They're named Black Fire, for god's sake.
In short, you probably won't want to hear this for any of the reasons that you would want to hear A Metal Album. But if you're dumb like me, maybe there's something to it.

Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...