Nuklear Rock ‘n’ Roll, baby! Don’t pay too much attention to the Avant-Garde Black
Metal genre mentioned on their page since it would be very much misleading as there are almost no Black
Metal elements in the Poles’ music. But there is Avant-Garde. For sure.
A fitting description of
Iblis’ music would be trying to picture
Disharmonic Orchestra, Not To Be Undimensional Conscious era, with loads of extra groove. The few of us that still remember the Austrian band know that they should expect something close to
Death Metal with a peculiar twist. Madness, madness, madness.
And another dose of madness.
It’s probably a given that the reference to
Disharmonic Orchestra is probably too obscure for most. In recent years, I would refer to
Beissert, a German band that plays a very distinct brand of metal with whom
Iblis share a lot of common points. Though, on
Menthell, the base sounds very much more
Death Metal (riffing, blast beasts, etc.) you’ll find more or less the same elements:
Baroness meets
Pantera meets
Faith No More meets
Infectious Grooves meets
Disharmonic Orchestra (yes, you got that one again for free).
Now those are not really obscure bands but I can see how it could be puzzling to imagine all these references put together. Yet,
Iblis managed on
Menthell to offer something really coherent despite the madness. It sure goes in all kinds of directions but retains this love of the headbanging riffs, this groovy feeling induced by fantastic bass lines (the bass is MEMORABLE here!!), deranged lyrics and vocals and epic songwriting with progressive undercurrents.
In the end, I guess there’s not going to be a single review of this record that will do justice to these guys’ music as it’s a bit too harsh to describe with mere words. Let’s just say the experience is thrilling and past the initial “what the fuck” moment when playing this for the first time (and taking a look at the psycheshroomelic cover does that too…), you’ll soon come back for more if you’re into experimental stuff (and I’m not usually…).
Iblis signed a peculiar yet great record and shows that Poland's scene is not only great Black
Metal or
Death Metal, but that there is a lot more than meets the eye.
Anyway, lots of blasts, and a pretty cool bass.
A disturbing, weird and kinda brutal album.
Sometimes remembers me Unholy Fables' first full-length 'Stone', in a less weird but more violent way.
Thanks for your review.
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