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Info
- Band(s): Belzec
- Label(s): Masters of Kaos Productions
- Release Format(s): CD, Re-Release
- Release Year: 2024
- Review Date: March 31, 2025
- Author(s): Seth Nekromancer
South American bands have always had a fascination with everything related to the First and Second World Wars. We have many examples in the past with bands like SS in Venezuela or the first Sepultura and Holocausto in Brazil, to name a few. That war legacy has always been thrown in everyone’s face, and Belzec is no exception. It’s been two decades since they stormed the underground with their ‘The Art of Holocaust’. After the death of their short introduction, they make it clear with repetitive screams what the intention of the work is and what they want to demonstrate… Invoking the Swords of Black Art is the face of PURE HATE, DEATH, DESTRUCTION!!
The music is intense but at the same time has a hint of melody but don’t let the word fool you because it’s not at all beautiful here. In some passages the old Immortal, Darkthrone or Gorgoroth can invade your mind and for this reason I can dilute some influences from the Norwegians of course but with the raw and intense South American stamp that they knew how to shoot at the time of the production of songs like ‘Antichrist Supremacy’ or ‘In Memory of Hate’ that takes us into the battlefield. One of my favorite songs is ‘In the Name of the Holocaust,’ which combines everything Belzec is about in this release: fast riffs, violent drums, screams filled with hate accompanied by keyboards that invoke magnificent atmospheres.
I think that the album at the time had problems with the mixing and that not all the songs sound the same in terms of the volume and position of the instruments and voices, but I think that this makes this album special since these types of ‘problems’ when mixing and mastering have always been present in the vast majority of Black Metal and Death Metal albums from the 90s in South America and that is what makes them powerful, irreverent and chaotic, not suitable for those looking for super productions inflated with digital fillers!
Masters of Kaos Productions
- Country: Colombia
- Style: Black Metal, Death Metal
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