Now, only two of the six songs are under that approximate length, and even those aren’t short ones.
I noted when Keziah Lilith Medea came out that they had written their longest song, clocking in at around seven and a half minutes. Nothing is simple anymore, with every single thing being played on the guitar standing in stark contrast to what the band was playing a decade ago even when the guitars fall a little more in line with something more conventional, they’re usually not playing the same notes, lending themselves to the horrifying atmosphere that Unaussprechlichen Kulten creates.Įvery song on Teufelsbücher is a long one, which also stands in opposition to the early years of the band.
There’s a relative lack of “brutal” riffs at this point, replaced instead by angular, creepy staccato leads, tremolo melodies, and distressing off-kilter rhythms that often don’t really match up guitar to guitar. Focusing entirely on the riffs and ignoring the drumming and vocals, it becomes apparent that Kulten no longer really do that. While you can still hear that (sort of), this isn’t really the case anymore. In my review of Unaussprechlichen Kulten’s last album, I noted that the core of their sound was rooted in the classic Immolation formula. Add that to the issues that all South Americans have with breaking out and you get one of death metal’s most consistent and killer bands being sadly unappreciated in the larger scene, something that I hope will finally change with the band’s fifth full-length album, Teufelsbücher. Much like Drawn and Quartered and Funebrarum, they’ve been operating since the ‘90s but got started just a little too late to be considered a classic band, or to debut when their style of death metal had many fans active. Unaussprechlichen Kulten are firmly on my list of classic Chilean bands worth listening to. Some people, who I think are sadly ignorant of one of the world’s richest metal scenes, don’t think of much at all. Some people hear Chile in association with death metal and think of fantastic bands such as Pentagram and Dominus Xul.
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