Distorted Cognitions

THIS IS WHAT XUL LIVES FOR.

Something so utterly ugly, so disgustingly terrible to listen to, that it rots your eyes with its vibrations, krushes your nose with its stamping distortion, and shakes your brain violently like a crazed mother that has had enough of her crying new born.

Imagine finding an album that contains a song that instantly sends shooting visions into your mind of T-800's punching the fukk out of each other in an engine room, screaming their cyborg curses, and totally destroying everything. See Track - 3.

All in all, I'm glad and feel lucky to have discovered this album/band, as I believe it is a true representation of what can be created with enough wires, hate and of course, Xul in your soul/CPU.

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Havoc Unit

Once upon a time in Finland there was a band called ...And Oceans. Who were basically some amusing but in the end dull sympho bm that later turned into some industrial dabbled bm with way too much pop added. Then they realized they were all infected with AIDS and got angry. Dissolving their past innocence they came back with a teen raping vengeance infection machine called Havoc Unit. Much more effective than their prior work and even proof that you can be influenced by Meshuggah without being a completely boring heap of shit.
Definitely headed in the right direction here.

WHEN SNUFF IS NO LONGER ENOUGH

Misanthropic Art - Necrohumanity....World Self Finalizing

Cold insanity from Russia, superb chaotic futuristic horror! Fukk Burzum! Grab this!

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Blacklodge - T/ME

Blacklodge, the name synonymous with the future of black metal. Industrialized chaos and hallucinogen trips to Planet Satan. Oh yes oh yes how Xul adores you.. What we have here is their newest effort and a sister album to Abigor's own new fantastic piece to Digital Satan.
If you're familiar with their prior works (both can be found here on Xul) then you know what to expect. Quality cyber black metal of the first rate. For sure one of the leading bands of the genre now and a band rapidly on the ascent. Attach razors to those glowsticks now, folks... Because this dance can be lethal. Syringes are also truly a medium to enjoy. This just keeps getting better and better. Now at their third and critical album, where will they turn next? Now isn't the time to ponder though, as it is time to enjoy this Quality T/ME... and oh how it is T/ME well spent.

SULPHURIC ACEDIA

Abigor - Time is the sulphur in the veins of the saint

Abigor's newest effort... Just like with the material from Fractal Possession PK has concentrated on doing whatever the hell he wants with the project, taking it in odd twists and disjointed turns. Long gone are the classic days of this band and in fitting fashion of Xul, he killed the pagan nonsense in favor of the cold textures of industrial influenced material to give heed to the coming age of plasteel. Abigor in general has been developing in an interesting way since the God awful Satanized, which eventually saw the temporary end to the long running project. I believe this can probably be looked at as PK reaching for more than he was capable of at the time. Wanting to add industrial texture and layering to an already layered style and sound without yet having the understanding of how to apply it. Once he took time away to learn what he needed, he returned with a vengeance and coldness that really revitalized the Abigor sound.
A 2 track album, it's definitely going to take some involved listening to fully wrap your head around it, as it's all over the place... and we mean that in a good way. Good to hear a new voice from one of Xul's all time favorites.

VISUALIZE FORTRESS HELL

Heidenreich

A side project of good old Abigor's that would oddly be a foreshadowing of things to come for the band. Basically a sketchpad of PK's ideas that mixed industrial elements into some Abigor riffs. One can definitely see this as his experimental child for the time. They released an mcd and a cd and then he folded it to focus on Abigor and later Hellbound. Not too bad, if a bit of a disjointed approach to cyber bm.

GRIM AND BITTER HEART

Choronzon

One of the most schizophrenic movements of cyber black metal ever created. The entire purpose of Choronzon is to exist to serve that demonic current the project is named for and I'll be fukked if it's not only pulled off, but voiced by Choronzon itself. An absolute mindfukk of a project and sound here, layers swirling all over the place over chaos chaos chaos chaos FUKKING HELL! Yeah, it's that good. Words fail it... Listening you are driven to violence, possessed by Choronzon, doing the deeds of Choronzon and running out the door to quickly murder any passersby that even dare add their voice to the noise coming out of your speakers.
Literally, this will drive you to do some acts of fun. Breaking into your neighbors to violate the anus of that crying baby never felt so good as when Choronzon was blasting as your fukktrakk.
This is the sonic equivalent of burning your candle at both ends... the energy is fantastic, but you know that you are dying all that much faster... Not only essential, but XUL absolutely orders you to listen. Panic Pandemic to begin with and then flush out the rest of your system. Pray to whatever God or void you wish, Xul has found a sibling spirit, and its name is Choronzon.

AESTHETIC SHOCK TACTICS

(V.E.G.A.)

Another discovery for December, well to be honest, I'd heard of VEGA an age ago but never bothered to throw myself at them.

I mentioned this to Nihilus Xul the other day, and upon mentioning album titles such as "Cocaine" and "Alienforest" he rightfully pointed out just what I had been thinking..

"This is Xul material" and it is.

We get a great mix of even greater things here, love Abigor?...Yes Abigor being just one of the bands you can hear within VEGA, the others just don't spring to mind, but upon listening to these albums, you'll get stuck in the same cloud as well.

Cocaine and Alienforest are worth special attention...the latter was recorded first and released second, which means that Cocaine features alot of songs on Alienforest only with a better production. That doesn't mean Alienforest isn't worth your listening time, as within this album there are some of Xul's favourite flavours, namely Cyber elements.

Industrial and Cyber sonic waves feature all over this bands work, electronics are here and used in a special way, you could even forget at times that you're listening to a Metal album on Alienforest, but thankfully, it punches you in the face at just the right moment, and after that you're on edge, looking out for those fists flying your way.

As a whole VEGA are an interesting listen, so if you have a few hours on your hands, listen to these Xul offerings and remember that the musically/lyrical theme only has one element to it "Insanity".

For a band that is fronted by an Italian, this doesn't sound much like anything I've ever heard from Italy, save maybe a few killer Aborym songs, the other two members are Norwegians, but it sounds quite clear that this is one Xulborgs mission, and he eats grim-pasta.

We have....

Cocaine, Alienforest & their latest release Far From You, which should be the last you listen to.

Drugs and UFO's

NDE - Krieg Blut Ehre Asche

This, Xulborgs...is VERY much worth your attention.

This is Black Metal blown apart, and molded back together with Martial Industrial and Noise elements, truly horrible in its purpose, destructive and with the simple goal of tormenting your senses into running out into the street warning the public about what you just heard, and that it should be destroyed, only this can't be killed, it can't be stopped. This is powerful and grim, and surprisingly Belgian.

Xul can't get enough of this right now, it's storming through today into tomorrow, this is a superb direction for BlackMetal to wander into in more depth, problem being that once you walk into this urban wasteland, you may not want to come back. Let's not fukk around, grab this now.

Nuclear Future

[Note, this is my band of the month for November, as I'm late with this post.]

Vorak

It's a rare gift to be awesome at being terrible. Whether comical intentionally or not Vorak was around long enough to release 2 albums full of everything wrong with programmed material in black metal. His vocals sounding like he was a member of the Zerg, his programmed piano arpeggios were awesomely over-pompous and his weedwhacker guitars would make Ildjarn cringe. This oddly enough fits into the cyber black metal world, but this would be that cousin the family would rather forget. Naturally this makes it entertaining as hell in Xul's eyes.

DESTRUKTIVE KOMMANDOH

Skiltron N.V. 101

The net brings us a new cyber collaboration. This time in the form of Skiltron N.V. 101. Greece and Brazil fuse together to form their own mechanized division. Still in their demo era, or just a couple of demos for the hell of it to come... They have some potential here.
Xul continues its campaign for drummer replacement.

KILL YOUR DRUMMER

MZ 412

The soundtrack to your self abusing torture sessions. Nordvargr's most evil project. Some albums done before this mid era, some after, but this is what you need. Explanations and metaphors not required. Just cook it on the spoon, slam it home and wait for Xul to find you convulsing in the corner.


BURN THE TEMPLE OF GOD

The Amenta

The modern world is ugly. That's what's so wonderful about it... One giant pit of bleak, destructive behavior. The oily pollution can only produce conditions rife for the rise of Xul.
The Amenta see it as well, focusing their mechanized death metal on worshiping what is NOW.
Your smiling children grow up to be pill popping adults, schizophrenic in their disconnected lives. Trying to find a purpose that eludes them in their cubicles, desks, counters, warehouses. You can feel the tension in the very air you breathe...

WORSHIP THE MODERN WORLD

Alien Deviant Circus

Back to France with our cyber warfare... The Alien Deviant Circus comes to town, and ain't no clowns to be seen here. An international flavor for sure, perhaps the kebabs being dished up alongside X and techno beats. The floor filled with the dancing harlots you can catch AIDS from simply looking at... MedusAIDS if you will. Your ringleaders happy to bark about the glory of a universe of kaos without any sign of order ever rearing its head again. Which is kinda hard to do when you have a drum machine beating at you in time, but I digress...
Not as furious as some other offerings from the rising capital of cyborg fused black metal, but a surprisingly solid and refreshing listen.


OMEGA KAOS

3

Today Xul presents an Italian taste of cyber black metal... The oddly named 3. Holy trinity? Nah... Number of the counting for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch? Doubtful. Whatever it means to him, it's a solo project that released 4 demos (3+1?). Good stuff and rumors are that the band broke up, which is rather amusing when you have a solo project. Or just completely schizo. Either way, enjoy.

Carne Morta!

iperyt

In Xul's mission to convert you with our steady stream of anti-drummer mechanized divisions of black metal, we make like good little cyber nazis and go from occupying France to an invasion of Poland. Here we find Iperyt, who employ a more blasting and pounding style of Xulborg kaos than some of our French Legions. The Polish way, less sophistication and more outright assault.

ABUSE YOURSELF

Diabolicum

Diabolicum, another of the influential acts that gave us cyber black metal as we know it and love it today. For those that still don't appreciate a techno beat with their ork wails, this might be a good band to bridge the gap with. Skynet is rising and sooner or later those T-800s are going to crush the skull of every pagan tree worshiper out there. You can feel it coming...

INJECT

Reaktor 4

Mid-paced Cyber-Black Metal, ugly in parts, and also adding the odd mix of ancient pub music towards the end of tracks, which will throw you off, and throw you out but never jerk you off.

At times it makes me think of what ICE AGES might sound like with more guitars thrown into the mix, some of the cyber elements do carry that feel. Anyway, fuck off.

TAPTHEWIRE

Blacklodge

One of our cyber black metal darlings here at Xul, we realize that while all of us are well indoctrinated into the solarkult, some of you out there may not be. The earliest of France's recent forays into "Fukk your drummer" turf that we became aware of, it is a milestone band.
Our love of the horrors of the modern world, drug abuse and nuclear annihilation threats are the stuff that keep us going... Blacklodge provides it in spades. Essential shit.

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Solarkult

La Division Mentale - L Extase Des Fous Plasmodium

Keeping up with the French vibe that's been shown recently here at Xul, LDM deliver more Cyber Black Metal in a very pleasing way. Needless to say these fellows take drugs, have sex with low class hookers, and attend Hard-House raves seeking doped up females to take into dark corners and finger with feces stained digits.

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