Pathetic Nu-Metal - "Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam" Review (0%)
Gorgoroth plays a brand of "music" often referred to as "war metal", and it's basically shit.
The original "ritualistic black metal" albums, Phantom's Divine Necromancy and Beherit's Drawing Down the Moon, were great. Very interesting stuff, atmospheric, thought provoking, and most of all genuinely intense.
There must be something about Phantom's hypnotic yet rather primitive riffs that just captivates the listener, in the same way that ancient primitive tribes got high off of a small dose of the venom of snakes or various parasites. It figures that "theistic satanists", nu-metal fans, "br00tal" mosh headbangers and anyone coming from a punk/hardcore background - i.e., the low IQ, low intelligence, low imagination, low executive functioning segment of metalheads - get so enthralled by these exact same riffs played over and over again, with very minor variation, if any at all.
The same way dumb hipsters smoke weed or take some drug and think they are having "deep thoughts".
So these clever, enthralling and provoking albums by Phantom and Beherit, as well as a few other bands like early Blasphemy, Profanatica and Von, essentially albeit simplistically just some sort of "devil's advocate" push back against modern, sanitized, commercial cock rock metal in the vein of Dimmu Borgir, were turned into a bona fide religious cult by former nu-metallers who discovered black metal aesthetics by accident. And it is mostly nu-metallers, nu-metal being the go to "genre" of the dumbest metalheads who believe heavy metal started when Slipknot discovered down-tuned guitars.
War metal is always the fallback, flavor of the week black metal trend whenever we're in between flavor of the week black metal trends. The music genre most closely related to Gorgoroth's "war metal" is nu-metal. Unsurprisingly, nu-metal itself is the lowest IQ form of metal and often is listened to by the dumbest fans in the history of metal.
With no band able to produce any album that doesn't sound exactly like every other "war metal" turd out there, and entire musical discographies consisting of only power chords, war metal, like nu-metal before it, rarely features notes outside of a one-octave registrar. The only exception is the random assignment of notes in an occasional, poorly played, and often out of key "guitar solos".
Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam, for all its tryhard and superficial black metal aesthetics, has much more in common with Korn than with early Darkthrone.
Pathetic Nu-Metal
Like its direct parent nu-metal, every war metal album is dumber and more simplified than the one before it, so by the time Gorgoroth came around with Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam there was already no life, interest, or reason to listen to this music.
Nothing new is offered, the lyrics are nonsense, the riffs are nonsense, and it's nearly impossible to remember any of the songs, or even to distinguish them from one another, even after two or three listens.
With no memorable music, no meaning to the lyrics (besides "Hail Satan my Master!!!"), and no reason to take out 32 minutes out of your life (which become a long 32 minutes when listening to this), it becomes clear that Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam only exists so the band can sell more of the same nu-metal shit to their already brain damaged fans.
Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam is nothing more than commercial salesmanship made for - and by? - drunk and drugged low IQ retards. Not music, not evil, not anything more than 32 minutes of noise the band and label could use to con the mentally deficient into making a couple of quick purchases.
Even the stupid lyrics and the "broodingly angry" manner in which they're delivered reflect the mentality that Nine Inch Nails and Drowning Pool would use when making nu-industrial themed Xanax accompaniments.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. "Br00tal" mosh metallers are the most easily manipulate of all music fans, even more so than hipster posers who listen to Liturgy. Just play some Slipknot, add a few tremolos, talk a lot about Satan and see these mental defects scrape their pockets for what's left of their mental disability checks to buy your latest merch.
In the end, Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam is very lame war metal that doesn't even live up to the laughably low standards of nu-metal, its clone target.
Avoid this pathetic nu-metal Korn clone.
Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam score: 0/100.
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