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Deathkey - Hammer of Aryan Terror

Deathkey is one of these names whose releases or outgivings are always followed by a wave of comments, criticism, vaunts and outrage. This person, representing radically right-wing attitude goes to no compromises and by aggressively "incorrect" symbolism, sound and declarations raises a bunch of dissatisfactory feedbacks with every move. It proves that if you stand brave and strong for your ideas and thoughts you'll never be mixed and lost in grey crowd.
On the A side of a vinyl, released by two highly respective labels RRR and Freak Animal, one long, lasting for 18 minutes piece Werwolfe. It begins with the sample from legendary movie "Werewolf in London". After that sample Deathkey seats you to the train going straight to abbyss and accompanies you to the very final stop. All in all it is a rather strange song. The first part of it - silent and amorphous background sound with bursts of strident howls that are similar to vocal though it is under such heavy effects that I still doubt if it is voice or not. After around 6 minutes background sound is replaced or transformed to massive wall which reflects thousands of screams from time to time. I can't help, but it seems that this piece is divided into 3 parts. 6 minutes each of them. You don't have to be a mystic to understand what that symbolizes. Though it might be just my imagination. The piece gets calmer and bypasses wall in the last minute and suddenly, after several shouts it ends. The beginning of other side of vinyl covers you with massive and oppressive material. From behind that - vocal under heavy effects shouting (what my ears catch) antichristian theses (axioms). While I listen to this piece - a visualisation appears before my eyes - a chamber and black-white colors, changing every second in it. No shades, no compromises - just extreme points of the color scale. Sometimes you feel uncomfortable and it seems that Deathkey simply laughs and mocks at you. Later a sample about jews and christianity is heard in the background and the piece ends. The middle song on B side starts with the sample from Omen. It is already hard to listen to this piece without unconscious mind throwing out some weird pictures or places. At the moment it seems that in Verus Malum someone is being tortured under heavy rain. Is it? Something similar to feedbacks, vocal under thick wall of noise... The third song awakes with high squeak of monotonic feedback. This song, despite being the shortest, is the most varied one. This one doesn't go by the rule of the song-structure that was before - massive sound wall, sinking to painful catharsis and shouting vocal somewhere deep under it. This piece is more alive and a bit sharper. It ends the B side of the vinyl. What could I say for resume? I think the last title describes best what I've heard here - Hammer Arischer Dunkelheit. Dark. Rough. Massive. It oppresses. It crushes. Dangerous. And when you feel the danger in a complete satanic darkness - you feel weaker and weaker and more uncomfortable than ever. Good work. It's not a coincidence that it was released as a CD just recently.