Work writing

Seeing as though I've managed to source a job writing, i guess im allowed to put my writings up that I do for it..so here's the first one


Anaal Nathrakh

In the Constellation of the Black Widow

There’s a brooding sense of malice that enters the mind when it’s known Anaal Nathrakh are releasing a new album. Their musical journey is an allegory to the rise and thunder of the Industrial Age, born in the Ironbridge Gorge mere miles from where this doomstruck duo had their formative years. To this day that legacy leaves an impression upon the landscape and it’s inhabitants (If you’re unaware of Birmingham’s musical heritage then you’ve taken a wrong turn, turn round and find Black Sabbath Avenue…understood?)

Close your eyes and as the introductory notes tear out, you feel brimstone beneath your feet and begin to engage with the malevolence within your soul. It could just be the intensified production value that’s improving with each album furthering the illustrative sonic nature of A.N, though some claim this is taking them ever further from their purist Black Metal beginnings, or it could just be that within this aural cacophony of bile soaked spite there truly is the means to take over Hell itself.

This is the elixir of heavy. Every listen changes the minds eye, giving snapshots into a brutal and industrial past, flickering briefly into our apocalyptic future. The sky has indeed been set aflame.