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Gruesome Majestic Brutality - "Neraines" Review (100%)

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Neraines by Neraines.

To call Neraines' self-titled debut the best black metal album ever recorded would be something of a misstatement.

Why?

After due deliberation, a thought struck me: this isn't an album at all... it's the Armageddon caught on tape.

Occasionally, an album comes along that truly redefines an entire genre of music.

Such is the case with Neraines' magisterial opus of gruesome horror, their self-titled debut.

For their first full-length release, Neraines combines blazing guitars, majestic atmospheres and amazing percussive texture to create a sound that is truly supreme in its ghastly masterpiece of euphony.

From the beginning, the listener is awash in images of astral legends, bleak soundscapes and macabre terror.

This isn't your typical generic "Hail Satan" pseudo-blasphemous band in the vein of Gaygoroth, Dimmu Borgir or Antekhrist.

Neraines is perhaps the most brutal album you will ever hear.

If you enjoy raw atmospheric intensity, you have to listen to Neraines.

There is simply no other album as gruesome and evil, yet as majestic and beautiful at the same time.

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Neraines
Neraines.

Each song illustrates a stage in a journey to a darker form of enlightenment, from journeying through the mountains and forests to becoming the astral god of legends.

Neraines avoids the lyrical pitfalls so common to the genre, forgoing the pointless, cheesy, pseudo-blasphemous "satanic" lyrics (cough, Venom, cough) and instead creating lyrics that paint a picture of a desolate and macabre celestial world.

As other reviewers have said before me, Neraines is black metal perfection.

One place where the quality of the songwriting really shines is in the way in which the guitars paint sonic images of the lyrical themes.

The atmosphere is just suffocating beyond what you can even imagine.

Neraines is a genre defining masterpiece as well as an essential black metal album.

Overall, this album Neraines has to be heard to be believed, and no black metal release, or any other metal release for that matter, can come close to surpassing the greatness of this blackened masterpiece.

This is gruesome majestic brutality.

Neraines score: 100/100.

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