Nazxul "Black Seed" CD

Reissue of the Black Seed EP with two live tracks and the entire 1994 demo.
Tracks 7-10 taken from 1994 demo.

Nazxul’s, ‘98 work of advanced symphonic black art their, ‘Black Seed’ EP featuring the iconic, ‘Vow of Vengeance’. Created with destructive heaviness & and morbid symphonic darkness.
The classic works of Australian black metal with bonus live tracks.

This version has the identical tracklist to the Asphyxiate Recordings reissue. Séance Records now owns the rights to the recording.

Few bands have ever managed to single handedly swoop down on me and rip my soul apart as much as Nazxul. Having delivered a scathing attack on 'Totem', they suddenly erupted with a deeply symphonic and majestic release that only accelerated the vicious pace of the band.
'Vow of Vengeance' erupts with majestic, grand and powerful symphonic workings, like a whole cathedral blasting with choirs over slow cascading drum work, slowly rippling guitars and hideously dark vocals. Reminding me of a section in the Anne Rice novels, involving an ancient castle that held a whole court of Vampires, who sung infernal yet beautiful blasphemic anthems, in the same way Nazxul move beyond the standard instrumental barrage and turn to the more calculated attempts to destroy.
‘Black Seed Sown’ uses the scathing speed of Antaeus or Marduk even, but with a deeper black/death foundation of speed and crushing brutality, and underlying dark melodies as used by Sort Vokter and Ildjarn. The melodies are often obscure and only deep rumblings under the guitar wash in most songs, but this album also uses proper orchestrations very well. ‘Black Seed Sown’ uses a deep pipe organ like in Graveland’s ‘In the Glare of Burning Churches’ or on Sort Vokter’s ‘Folkloric Necro Metal’, but the overall effect of deeply malicious black metal is beyond these comparisons.
The song then ends off with a disturbing instrumental piece, featuring a few more technics then I would expect the band to get into, but what can I say, this is a powerfully agile band, moving from symphonic orchestral creations into deeply destructive speed breaks and into cathartic atmospheric pieces to reflect on.
The next two tracks are played live, and both the quality and the intensity are unparalleled once again. Powerful and dark music is what Nazxul create, and a deep conviction can be felt in the music. It has been a long time since I have found a band this serious about their art and message, created with a flaming sword! Apostasies Legions Arise, Xul!

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