NIGHTBRINGER - Ego Dominus Tuus

October 13, 2014, 9 years ago

(Season Of Mist)

David Perri

Rating: 9.0

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NIGHTBRINGER - Ego Dominus Tuus

While it’s difficult to truly be shocked by the rigid codes and confines of black metal in anno 2014, Colorado’s Nightbringer has arrived, in such grand fashion, to remind that black metal once did the work of the devil, but the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. Though Nightbringer hinted at its oncoming nightside eclipse with 2012’s Hierophany Of The Open Grave, that record was but a mere opening act to the ruin that Ego Dominus Tuus presents listeners with. This scribe is no fan of the hyperbole and exaggeration that is commonplace in our underground metal world, but Ego Dominus Tuus truly is both scorched earth policy and a vision of disorder, this album acting with the kind of ardor and candor only the most authoritative know how to menacingly wield. Let us be clear, then: Nightbringer is extreme, in every facet of that oft overused word. Taking early Emperor as its base but infusing it with the type of unbelievable and surreal quality that greeted all of us the first time we experienced Behemoth’s “Slaves Shall Serve”, Ego Dominus Tuus admires that twin peak of truculence and encases it in elegance and then knife-to-the-eyes malevolence, in the process crafting a record that is rare in its dual affirmation of listenability and pure fucking armageddon (and let’s hope the spirit of Leipzig burns as you read that). It is very possible, and realistic even, that Ego Dominus Tuus will not receive the attention that is due to it. But this important, forceful and unbalanced album will assert its wrath regardless. This record is war.



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