Leader - Burzum Sha Ghâsh

As if in a ferocious and primitive assault on the concept of music itself, Leader move their trademark style of raw, disturbing and hypnotic black metal symbolism in riff form from the realms of both extremity and noise into that of haunting, demonic, trance atmosphere, in which all cycles return to their climactic unveiling, in either possessed outburst of dementia or abrupt, cataclysmic destruction of all human sanity.

Melted by unsettling friction layers of dissonant riff chords and mechanical percussion, interwoven with a hoarse, frantic and horrified scream of morbidity which cadences the unraveling of successive images of darkness, decadence and despair, each song on Burzum Sha Ghâsh reveals majestic primal structures colliding into a sea of demented otherworldly possession.

Thematically coherent rows of riff variations move the listener between infernal landscapes of rising or falling devastation, always taunting the listener's sanity with increasingly atonal, unusual and morbid riff shapes. Best described as a fusion between Phantom (Ascension of Erebos, Leader of the Gods - from which the band owe their name), early Burzum (Hvis Lyset Tar Oss) and Neraines (Fenrir Prowling), with touches of modern Vermin (Bloodthirst Overdose) for the added macabre, the can be no doubt that Burzum Sha Ghâsh is the ultimate primitive black metal opus.

Pure savagery in both conception and performance mark this release, like the debut on an apocalyptic journey into the world of "darkness and fire" (the meaning behind Burzum Sha Ghâsh in Dark Tongue of Mordor).

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