GRAND BELIAL'S KEY Kosherat DOUBLE LP SEALED NEW usbm

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Oct 23, 2009 Sold Date

Oct 16, 2009 Start Date

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GRAND BELIAL'S KEY (US) - ex-CRUCIFIER / HEARSE / ANCIENT / THOKK

Double Gatefold LP - "Kosherat"

Drakkar Prod limited to 500 copies
heavy thick vinyls shrinkwrapped, unopened, new 2005

Online Review:

While the earlier two full-length efforts from the Virginia quartet rank among the finest US black metal albums of the last decade their latest outing, Kosherat, sees the band honing their fine mixture of black metal and death, thrash and at times even punk influences to an absolute tee.

The musicianship here is top-notch and the drumming in particular stands out as a vast improvement over their earlier material. There's no reason to expect any masturbatory soloing here, however, as the musicians utilize their skills quite tastefully throughout the album.

The song material here is for the most part excellent. Gelial & co. have managed to get rid of the generic fast-slow-fast song structure which sort of bogged down their previous album, Judeobeast Assasination. The songs on Kosherat are varied and have a nice flow to them (apart from the Red Heifer which suffers from a couple of not-so-impressive riffs and melodies), and are even catchy at times. Some of the songs here, such as the excellent Hobo of Aramaic Tongues, have appeared on the band's previous releases but don't sound out of place at all here.

The production is quite interesting. Gone are the heavily compressed drums and bass from Judeobeast Assasination and back are the soft, natural dynamics of Mocking the Philanthropist. Everything is in perfect balance and the album is extremely easy on the ears without sounding overly polished. The band also continue their tradition of unconventional cover art choice (by black metal standards) and lyrically they still seem to enjoy treading the fine line between quasi-biblical phrasing and nearly juvenile mockery of judeo-christian values, all delivered with a large dose of black humour.

Kosherat shows Grand Belial's Key further maturing musically and is easily one of my top 5 albums of 2005. Not to be missed.

1. The Bearded Hustlers
2. The Red Heifer
3. Son of the Black Ram
4. On a Mule Rides the Swindler
5. Hobo of Aramaic Tongues
6. The Tricifixion of Swine
7. Immaculate Latrine
8. Vultures of Misfortune
9. Kingdom of Poisoned Fruits
10. Holy Sh*t (Chaos88 cover)
11. Doom Generation (Chaos88 cover)

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