This should have been the third K.F.R. album, right after ‘Nekro’. Recorded in 2015, it remained aside, as Maxime Taccardi wanted to do something different with ‘Zero’.
Vocals and drums were added in 2018 with human femurs. To this day, it is still one of the darkest K.F.R recordings, certainly not for everyone. Chaotic Black Metal with no consideration for any subtle norm or musicality.
It only came out on a limited CDr with blood art (33 copies) and as part of the wood tape box set released by Purity Through Fire (100 copies).
This recording has been remastered for maximum discomfort and audial disorientation. Beyond this remaster, K.F.R. has continued to evolve the Hypnotic Black Metal concept, releasing further remasters of earlier demos and full-length albums on Bandcamp and other digital platforms.
This is K.F.R. in its earlier stages, hungry for blood and feasting on darkness and shadows, fast chaotic parts alternate with creepy, menacing, sometimes subdued slow and Ambient cinematic passages. Maxime Taccardi uses his voice like an instrument, multiple layers of ‘vocals’ (hisses, growls,…) serve as a tool to colour his music.
‘Hypnotic Black Metal’ isn’t as refined as, say a ‘Pain/Ter’ but all the ingredients are there, including the pulsating flanger synth. ‘Hypnotic Black Metal’ is an abomination. It’s a monstrosity that drags itself in a grotesque way through 8 tracks, inducing a trance-like experience. It’s bewildering, it’s shocking, its black art of the highest quality.
K.F.R.’s take on Black Metal fuses raw primitive Metal with a rich cinematic sound and an incredible depth.
Whether it’s ‘Desecrate’, ‘#Death’, ‘Some Past Life’ or the tracks ‘Hypnotic Black Metal parts I & II’ – it’s about desecration, suicide, darkness, violence, nihilism – every aspect of Black Metal music but with a grandiose theatrical dimension to it.
You think you’re extreme because you like Abruptum or the LLN? You think you’re trendy because you listen to Death SS or black drone? You are NOTHING until you have K.F.R. in your collection! This is invaluable music for the darkest souls and most depraved souls among us. Get your K.F.R. while you still can.
