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The name of the debut album by the German band Annihilation Rite is World Below, and that is where it takes us — to a blood-freezing subterranean domain of merciless terrors, endless torment, and utter downfall. It’s a cold nightmare world where bones are smashed and minds are ruined, and also a summoning of the Lord of Darkness to ascend, and retaliate against life.
This new entity is the solo work of Entweider, who is also a member of Crypt Witch, Dark Fields, Necrochaos, Sinister Downfall, Urschmerz. The music is branded black metal, but draws from death and doom metal as well, in order to make its rendering of ferocity and fear even more apocalyptic. And Annihilation Rite has written its rites in long form, in ways that become hideously spellbinding.
As a tangible sign of all these qualities, we have for you today the premiere of an album track named “Damnation Crowns“, in advance of World Below‘s April 28 release by Satanath Records.
In this new song the frightening sound of a distant black whirlpool creates the backdrop for ringing peals of dismal and daunting tones, the heavy abrasion of tyrannical chords, and the slow and steady pace set by detonating drums. The entire amalgam chills right down to the bone, building fear like a wall, brick by brick. When the music begins to change, granite-heavy chugs slug like a sledgehammer, and the guitar whines in misery and clangs like an ancient funeral bell.
But this is all a prelude to madness — to blasting drums accented by maniacal fills, bestial snarls, and a storm of shrill, roiling guitars. The song also stomps like a lumbering behemoth and blankets the senses with sounds of cruelty and hopelessness, of howling ferocity and the ring of raking metal emanating from the void. Through near atonal hammer blows, the music inflicts a remorseless beating. It its finale, it rises up like a hideous monument, and wails in agony.
If there’s now anything left of your sanity or skeletal integrity, more work needs to be done. And so we also invite you to listen to the previously released song “Shrine of Obscurity“.
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2022/04/18/an-ncs-pemiere-annihilation-rite-damnation-crowns/
Annihilation Rite are a solo project from Germany that plays a mixture of black, funeral doom, death and industrial metal and this is a review of his 2022 album "World Below" which was released by Satanath Records.
Dark sounding synths start off the album along with some heavier funeral doom metal riffing a few seconds later. All of the tracks are also very long and epic in length while dark sounding melodies are also added into some of the guitar riffing as well as the vocals being mostly grim sounding black metal screams.
Industrial style beats can also be heard quite a bit throughout the recording while death metal growls can also be heard at times. When the music speeds up a decent amount of blast beats care also utilized along with the tremolo picking also giving the songs more of a raw feeling when they are brought into the music and throughout the recording you can also hear a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts.
Annihilation Rite plays a musical style that takes black, funeral doom, death and industrial metal and mixes them together to create a sound of his own. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover the evil forces of the Lord Of Darkness.
In my opinion Annihilation Rite is a very great sounding mixture of black, funeral doom, death and industrial metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this solo project.
http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.com/2022/05/annihilation-riteworld-belowsatanath.html
Mysterious German solo blackened death doom project Annihilation Rite hit us with crushingly heavy, reverb-soaked debut album with World Below. The album has an almost evil feel to it with how dark and dreary it comes across and with each of its four tracks coming in at over 9 minutes it will leave feeling drained and maimed.
Haunting vocals emanate out of droning, suffocating instrumentals with an echoed, hissed edge. While for the most part the instrumentals are slow and drawn out, there are multiple moments where the pace picks up to a furious speed and hammers the listener with punishing OSDM style instrumentals. While the instrumentals may change their tempo in these segments, the vocals remain haunting and esoteric.
Heavy use of synths, feedback and some almost industrial elements help to further develop an already dense atmosphere of depression and evil. It’s this unrelenting atmosphere that makes the album so oppressive, as the listener never really gets any respite. The only real break that Entweider gives are those fast paced, aggressive segments, which in the context of this album actually do allow you to finally breathe freely. I can only imagine how overpowering this music would be in a live context and the immense weight that it would put on your chest.
Overall, this is a fantastic debut from a project that I really hope to see more from. I don't really know how they could improve on what they've achieved here but another album of this exact nature would be just fine with me.
https://cavedwellermusic.net/blog-1/post/2169379/death-metal-we-missed-in-2022
German band Annihilation Rite are out with the album "World Below", and metal is the style explored on this production. It would appear that a variety of doom metal is rather central to the core sound here, as elongated slow paced passages with dark hovering textures that occasionally have borderline ambient tangents is something of a key aspect throughout. Harder and pacier sections is a feature as well however, adding an extreme metal dimension to the proceedings, with the talk-like Tom Fischer style vocal presence being one that really isn't particular to either one or the other. Subtle electronic undercurrents adds a slight industrial touch to the proceedings at times, but more as flavoring than as any truly dominant element as such. Those who tend to enjoy a dark and atmospheric blend of doom metal and extreme metal should find themselves right at home with this production, and I wouldn't be all that surprised if fans of later day Celtic Frost and Triptykon would find the landscapes explored here to be rather appealing.