Faggothry - "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk" Review (0%)
Emperor is 100% style and 0% substance.
In other words, it's faggoth shit.
So apparently this turd Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is somehow a "black metal classic".
Don't make me laugh, it's barely black metal let alone a classic.
Sure, it's probably slightly less crappy than their debut In the Nightside Eclipse... but what isn't?
Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is generic and derivative goth metal. There is no intensity, no atmosphere, it's just empty.
It sounds like an inflated balloon, taking up much volume but not having anything solid inside.
There are a lot of obnoxiously loud synths. They don't contribute to anything, they are only "there" for the sake of sounding different... and they sound like a joke.
Instead of creating a distorted or frightening atmosphere, which might be expected from the way the band is marketed, the synths sound unironically like shit.
Emperor is Gorgoroth 2.0... in other words, a gimmick with no connection to actual black metal music.
Faggothry
Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is to black metal what Dimmu Borgir is to black metal.
Both bands are indistinguishable one from the other.
In an attempt to conceal the internal artistic void, they try to make the surface aesthetic sound chaotic, with disjointed pseudo-technical riffs and generic arpeggios all over the place.
And by "technical", I mean shit.
You know how in one early episode of Spongebob Squarepants, the title character decides to buy some cheap inflatable roid-loaded arms and walk around wearing these dorky intertube arms slapped over his usual yellow twigs in an attempt to appear "tough"?
That's basically Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk: the riffs are Spongebob, and the pseudo-technicality is the anchor arms.
Did I mention songwriting? Oh, I just did.
Songwriting is one word that should not be mentioned in a review of Emperor (it's wrong to mock the retard), so I deeply apologize for mentioning that.
Since I did mention it anyway, I will do my best to talk about it: it isn't there.
There you go, that's all it needs to be said.
Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is just a collection of mutually indistinguishable riffs, each one just as boring as the next, that just keeps going on and on ad nauseam.
There maybe are choruses and bridges and all that stuff, but they might as well do away with those, because even if there are then they are hardly recognizable anyway.
This faggoth turd Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is one of the lowest points of black metal (let's assume it is even black metal, for the sake of the argument).
If this is pushing the "sonic and intellectual envelopes" of black metal, then taking a dump after eating three times your weight of KFC buckets and two packs of laxatives should be considered a work of art.
Avoid this faggothry.
Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk score: 0/100.
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