{"id":74456,"date":"2018-08-17T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=74456"},"modified":"2018-11-26T17:58:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:58:28","slug":"album-review-morketida-panphage-mysticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-morketida-panphage-mysticism\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00d8RKETIDA – Panphage Mysticism (2018) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

M\u00d8RKETIDA
Panphage Mysticism<\/strong><\/span>
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\nWerewolf (2018)<\/span>
Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The country of Finland continues to produce high quality extreme metal acts, Laitila residents M\u00f8rketida being the latest team to explore the murky world of black metal.<\/p>\n

Excluding an intro and an outro, debut offering Panphage Mysticism<\/em> brings six songs to the table. The trio of blackened souls behind such slabs are very much disciples of Satanic Warmaster and the likes as their evil bouts of speed and drudgery set about rusting the ears through such dank and pungent divisions in the form of tracks such as \u2018Invoking The Seventh Moon\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Invoking The Seventh Moon\u2019 starts out as a horrid clank before the arrival of the black metal scathe; the guitar tone is nifty yet somehow haunting in its journey through those stuffy drums, but as the pace quickens so we are introduced to the vile, dissonant gasps of the vocals. Clearly sang from a separate tundra, such outbursts are mere echoes of horror to accompany the otherworldly clamour produced by the rest of the sorry gathering as they conjure up demonic beings and clouds of black swirling smoke, both of which leave a vile metallic taste in the mouth of the listener.<\/p>\n

Slower passages are eerily mesmeric; bringing us into the gloomscape horizon of \u2018Witchcraft\u2019 with its spooky, slow-burning chimes and jingles \u2013 again the air is haunted by those effective guitar sprinkles and simplistic percussive patterns which provide flighty yet funeral threads. The fiery pace comes at the halfway stage, but there\u2019s still that focus on the haunting style rather than an in-your-face bestial attack.<\/p>\n

\u2018Serpent\u2019s Grail\u2019 barely ups the pace from the previous wave, although it\u2019s still a standard yet stark black metal drizzle \u2013 the percussion having the impact of a snowball on a brick wall. The steadiness nevertheless works while other instruments work together, and yet they rarely jab or prod. Instead, the mesh formed is one of sullen conjecture.<\/p>\n

With \u2018Throne Of Unseen\u2019, it\u2019s still that same now all too familiar formula just with extra padding and yet still melancholic in its venture, the band refusing by now to step away from type as the fires are stoked with steady persuasion and yet bereft of any spikiness.<\/p>\n

The title track takes an age to escape from its initial stark trickle, but there\u2019s something menacing in the trudge. By the point the band are clearly having obscure spectral liaisons with all and sundry; the music now a mere murky waft without the requirement of vocals.<\/p>\n

\u2018Temple Of Prevailing Darkness\u2019 signals the end of the album, but it\u2019s the same now rather uneventful plod that requires some patience to stick with. After 42 seconds though, we get a sudden rush of wind… or fire… the band jerking to life from their frozen casings to deliver a supercharged but still very remote blizzard blur. And that\u2019s all she wrote.<\/p>\n

M\u00f8rketida come across as a rather bleak and at times one-dimensional drab attack, the actual \u2018Intro\u2019 and \u2018Outro\u2019 providing the only real suspense or punch in what is otherwise a hypnotic-cum-boring black-doom snoozefest that promises to deliver but ends up being a rather damp squib due to its inability to shift gears in the fog.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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