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Last Updated on 05:41 PM by Giorgos Tsekas
Genre: Black Metal
Country: U.S.A.
Label: Osmose Productions
Year: 2016
Do you play extreme Black Metal with Death Metal outbursts? Do you hate anything involved with the human race? Do you hate conformism and pray for a plague to pop out straight from nowhere and eliminate any biped life form? Well then, you ought to create a band called Black Fucking Cancer and your every riff should be a resounding “Go to hell.”
Formed in 2009 in San Jose, California, by three members of Necrite (currently on hold), Black Fucking Cancer released a Demo in 2011 ( “Summons Acoustic Hell”) and their official self-titled debut came out in June 2016, via Osmose Productions, on CD and cassette format.
If we could somehow designate the music of Black Fucking Cancer, we would say that it is music full of intelligence and chaos. Extreme, dirty, fast Black Metal, embellished with Death Metal outbreaks. Generally, in BFC’s self-titled debut there is a Darkthronesque kind of aesthetic, that of the mid/late ‘90s. We are talking about an unbridled kind of music, with amazing riffs succeeding one another; repeated punches of malice and hatred, from guitars and drums that destroy everything in their path with their deadly power and brute force. The rhythms vary from mid tempo to furiously fast parts; nonetheless the result is solid and seems to be a product of critical and elaborate thinking. Especially with the guitars, Black Fucking Cancer have done an excellent job, having moments when the term “chaotic composition” generates only a small picture of what is really happening. For example, listen to “Wall of Corpses” which fucks with your mind, because it simply can do that, or “A Sigil of Burning Flesh”, which is one of the best tracks I’ve ever heard in extreme sound. Additionally, a great victory is marked by the vocals; they are grafted with anger and rage about anything that can be included in the concept of “Humanity”.
Regarding the production of the album, it adds extra points to the final score. The sound is clean and dirty at the same time. The production and the mixing of “Black Fucking Cancer” leave the instruments and compositions to breathe, despite their generally chaotic nature.
“Black Fucking Cancer” is an incredibly interesting album, which surely demands more than just one hearing to understand its essence and grasp its ideas (musical and otherwise). The band’s debut isn’t an outcome of parthenogenesis, it doesn’t offer innovations or novelties; nevertheless it succeeds in locking your interest with its morbid compositions and the pitch-black atmosphere it creates.
For fans of Katharsis, early 1349, Pest, Emperor etc.
4.5 / 6
