New discovery for me.
That's the trouble of liking and dealing with pretty obscure genres, I would've definitely put Hierophant's Great Mother: Holy Monster on my top list of albums from 2013, had I heard about at any point in 2013. But I didn't until now, January 2015.
It's simply an explosion of an album, and much better than the other album I've found from them, 2010's self titled effort. Do check that one out though, the final track is pretty fucking great. Maybe that one will grow on me but so far Great Mother has a definite advantage.
It's one of those bands that has a sound that's bound to appeal to me. It reminds me of Enabler, but a little bit less "metal" than them, if that makes any sense. Pretty similar though, make no mistake. Last.fm lists fellow Italians The Secret as one of the most similar artists and there's definitely some similarity, although the black metal is much less prominent in their sound than in The Secret's. Other similar artists according to last.fm include Masakari, Protestant and Baptists, but I'm tempted to say this sounds more like Enabler than any of these bands, despite the comment I made about it being less "metal".
Anyway, it's a solid album, dark, hard and angry. The sheer malevolence in the music seems on par with the likes of The Secret, Trap Them and so on. I haven't read the lyrics and I don't understand what's being shouted (which is shouted pretty damn well btw), but the feeling is that of pure misanthropy, being fed up with society. Awesome.
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