Häxär - Teufelskult LP + Poster

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The work of one selfsame Häxär, concurrently of Ernte, HÄXÄR are a lone torch of Swiss black metal. Now, after two albums in as many years, HÄXÄR present their third album of turn-of-the-millennium nastiness: Teufelskult. Ripped raw and ripping, Teufelskult possesses that dead-but-alive electricity that so earmarked many a Moonfog release as Y2K approached. One could erroneously describe it as "industrialized" or even "robotic," but there's indeed bleeding humanity coursing through every treble-drenched note of HÄXÄR's third attack. More accurately, perhaps, this singed-circuits style of black metal is NECROTIC to the core: harshing out something otherwise polished or polishing something unremittingly harsh, either way arriving at the vintage antagonism of Teufelskult. Above all, the songwriting itself is second-wave classicism sprinkled with a touch of the hooliganism of the modern Teutonic school, or maybe an Alpine analog of Mütiilation's idiom-defining Black Millenium (Grimly Reborn). These references serve not to undercut HÄXÄR's creativity, but rather to underscore the rarefied territory in which Teufelskult is traveling. Get lost like it's 1999! 

1. Dämonenblut 05:36  
2. Teufelskvlt 05:59  
3. Askahex 05:38  
4. Ein Schatten so kalt 05:42  
5. Bastardis 05:54  
6. Götterdämmerung 02:52  
7. Prozession der Wölfe 05:16  
playing time 36:57