PNEUMA HAGION - Trinity I

April 26, 2015, 8 years ago

(Independent)

Greg Pratt

Rating: 8.0

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PNEUMA HAGION - Trinity I

I gotta admit, when the band bio throws out names like Beherit, Teitanblood, and Coffins, there's no way I'm not pretty excited from the get-go. Then it talks about extreme patios! No, extreme pathos. But I thought it said patios, and I was imagining some bad-ass patio furniture, like black as my soul and totally uncomfortable and forcing your beer to go immediately warm and stuff. But, no, no, pathos.

So, fine, I'll deal with your pathos if your music sounds anything like those three bands, and I'm happy to report that this one-man band (you'd never really guess it, which is impressive) does indeed conjure up the kind of grim and horrible, covered in excrement and sinking through the sewers vibe that those three bands tossed together would sound like. No big surprise that Nuclear War Now! has their sites on this guy, plans to re-release this on cassette already in the works, Pneuma Hagion proving that Texas has something to say when it comes to bestial black/death, and we best be listening. Excellent EP; if a full-length can maintain this level of intensity it's easily an 8.5, this one being a bit unsatisfying in its brevity, which, really, just means good things.



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