Black Murder "Feasts" CD (Bonustrack)

Includes bonus song originally recorded for a never released compilation.

Comes in a standard jewel CD case with a 4 pages booklet and a b&w printed CD

Very little is known about this besides that Vrolok of vlad tepes and Vordb Bathor Ecsep of belketre torgeist and moevot are the only two members of the band. Any ways this album has surprisingly good production not great but good considering this is just basically a demo. The music theses two evil minds made is really grim and evil sounding but still retaining the vlad tepes rocking sound if you have ever heard vlad tepes you’d know what I mean I don’t know if the drums on this album are a drum machine or not if it is its extremely well programmed. On some of the songs both members of the band sing the vocals are loud and frustrated pretty much the band sounds like vlad tepes and belketre combined. The stand out tracks on this album are tracks two three four and five. This album is pretty damn good for a demo and is well worth a listen if you can find it most likely you will not but if you do pick it up and buy it.

Feast demo (tracks 1 to 6)
Recorded on 4 tracks in 07/1995 at Wlad's place, Brest.
Digitized and remastered from a 1st gen copy in 09/2018 by Wlad.
Those Black Desires That Torment My Soul (track 07)
Recorded on 4 tracks in 07/1995 at Wlad's place, Brest.
Digitized, remixed and remastered from the 4 tracks master in 12/2017 by Wlad.

Black Murder was a side project of Vlad Tepes (who also shared members with Torgeist and Belketre), in essence a linking of many different strains of the LLN sound. When I first heard it what I thought was "a combination of Mutiilation and Vlad Tepes," this was without even knowing that this indeed has Vlad Tepes members, although no Mutiilation members. One might even think that this was their attempt to play something similar in dissonant feeling to Mutiilation, who was always a little distant from the other bands, and now has been "kicked out," although I somehow doubt that Wil from Mutiilation cares one bit.
The music itself has small elements of Vlad Tepes epic black n' roll type feeling (in essence a re-creation of Bathory's sound with more of the 2nd wave's sound mixed in) but those are only in moments and not highlighted.
What is highlighted are the dissonant and at times melancholy minimalist riffs that create a harsh atmosphere of hate, forwarded by the vocals which seem to be uttered from the depths of insanity. One person I know, after hearing the vocals though he was simply screaming his head off, with little else. Of course there is more to the vocals then screaming, the off kilter bizzareness and total insanity is not hard to pick up.
Black Murder was one of the finer LLN side-projects, and one of the best French BM bands my ears have heard. The quality of the sound is at least on the level of Mutiilation's Remains.. being better then say La Morte Lune or Vampires of Black Imperial Blood, and the quality of the song-writing will stick with you after listening. It certainly has peaked my interest to hear more of this band, but that is perhaps most difficult for this is the only release that any large number of people will get their hands on. True cult (but not kvlt) black metal that deserves your listening, if you don't mind a harsh hateful and insane atmosphere.

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