Vermin - Bloodthirst Overdose

On Bloodthirst Overdose, one of the all time finest moments of the genre, Vermin create vast and epic black metal through dissonant melody that breaks riff and rhythmic pattern to project vast arrays of morbidity, gruesome horror and lonesome sinister existences, for the mind to roam endlessly and get lost in a world of bleakness and evil.

The construction of the music on Bloodthirst Overdose follows no definitive harmonic rules, but instead chooses to embrace a form of deconstructive anti-harmonic power chord composition structured in various unorthodox ways, reminiscent of both Phantom and Burzum's less melodic moments, in order to create as large a space for potential melodic and atmospheric affinity as possible, simultaneously supporting its chaos with seemingly disconnected, frenzied, thundering drums, which maintain a fast blasting counterpart to the soaring, diving, multi-dimensional anti-harmonic riffing.

High speed counterpoint hypnotising chord structures buttressed by partial recursion, tonal centring through droning cyclic tortured riff shape emergence, ragged fusions of dissonant melodies converging toward oblivion, tempos and patterns shifting through the elements of one another into each other, Bloodthirst Overdose is a pure demonic black metal at its rawest and purest form, which no matter how aesthetically displaced it may appear at first listen, reveals itself as fundamental Verminlust inspired horror when the emergent melody encoded within begins to find form in the various aspects of its decomposition showcased by the sheer haunting atmosphere delivered at a thunderous pace through the music.

The carefully crafted atmospheric melodies emphasised by various layering techniques, with the precise and varied song structures - odes to Phantom's opus Ascension of Erebos - of Vermin's music give Bloodthirst Overdose both a beautiful and extreme aura in the same pulsing rhythmic strokes. Its beauty comes from its mystery and grandiose majesty, while its power comes from the finality and aggression with which it delivers the evil, distorted, awkward remnants of the only true darkness in the world... bloodthirst, and death.

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