Hellvetron, a black metal band from Texas, seem to have snuck up on everyone;
having been around since 2004 but only releasing one demo in 2005 before
dropping “Death Scroll of Seven Hells and It's Infernal Majesties” on Hells
Headbangers back in April.
Now, when I say Hellvetron are a black metal band, I really
mean that in the loosest sense of the word. A more accurate way to describe
them would be if you took a band like Teitanblood and forced them to make a
record after listening exclusively to doom metal for a few years. Ominous
slab-dragging beats plod along beneath a raw and filthy guitar tone which
fittingly accentuates the primordial and drawling chord-driven riffs. Front man
Alal'Xhaasztur sounds like he is howling out proclamations throughout the very
depths of the Seven Hells, preaching to the legions of the damned. Haunting
chants and various other subtle effects are used rather generously where they
can in order to draw the listener even further into the abysmal depths of
horror that Hellvetron spawned from.
“Death Scroll…” is a very short album, clocking in at only
25 minutes, but, surprisingly this works as an advantage, as one often
associates this style of music with long, drawn out “compositions” that tend to
wear thin on the listener pretty quickly, since not everybody has time to sit
down and listen to music for upwards of an hour every time. Hells Headbangers
has once again delivered us the goods with this release.
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