Allvaters Zorn is a side project of Grabnebelfürsten’s vocalist SeelenSchlachten; of course there are some similarities with the music of this great German Black Metal band, yet the differences are much, much bigger.
This Allvaters Zorn goes much more beyond the boundaries of metal as we know it; not that it is not heavy, yet I can imagine that not any Grabnebelfürsten will be a fan of Allvaters Zorn. If you ask me, SeelenSchlachten has painted a sonic picture in a kind of modern art style, and has more paganist influences than his main band does.
The intro ‘Erwachet’ (which means Awake, a very suitable title for an intro) opens a bit new age like. The title track is the ultimate statement of what you may expect from this project. At first it seems as if it goes on in the spirit of the intro, yet you can’t be more wrong! All of a sudden the song bursts out in an explosion of overdriven electronic drums, hyperfast and with vocals that are distorted and in pain, and sometimes monotonous. Sometimes even too monotonous. I once described an Italian band’s singer as a drunken Italian sailor; well Paolo, if you read this, start laughing, because here is your German counterpart.
‘Erbe verpflichtet’ is a song of over 23 minutes; and generally speaking it can be described as a collage of three identities: a hyper fast identity, an extremely heavy part (which I like best) and ambient, keyboard dominated tranquillizing parts; those are the three basic colours with which SeelenSchlachten has painted the sonic picture.
‘Ritual Part 1’ is more film music; keyboards, very tranquillizing and with sounds of wolves and nature. This also goes for ‘Vom Ende der Welt’ which is yet more epic with its wide keyboard arrangements and sound of bells ringing; if I had to pick a movie for this one, it would be Conan the Barbarian or something. And also ‘The Ritual Part 2′ is, although completely different from’ Part 1′, most suited as film music.
Concluding this all I must say that I don’t know whether this Allvaters Zorn is automatically fit for Grabnebelfürsten or even typical Black and/or Pagan Metal fans, The sound quality is of a demo quality, which is of course very logical if you consider that this is an Cassette and not on CD or vinyl. Perhaps it could be best described as music for an apocalyptic movie/scene, with only some minor Metal influences (mainly the title song). If you are into sound experiments, this could be interesting. Yet if you insist on sheer Metal and Metal compositions (like I do), you’d better think twice before listening or even buying this Cassette.
I think I will continue to consider this Allvaters Zorn as an audiophonic picture, painted by the poet SeelenSchlachten in a modern art style. I think I’m gonna put on Grabnebelfürsten’s ‘Dynastie – Oder wie man Herrschaft definiert’ once more, as I am such a biased Metal fan…
