Hells Headbangers

I won’t make the mistake of calling Nocturnal Blood original, though that’d be a pretty hard mistake to make. Before even listening to the album the sticker on the cover will tell you this sounds like Beherit, Demoncy, and Von. There’s been a spike in bands doing this, and bestial black/death metal is making a “comeback”. Though it’s never really been gone, and it never was really big, it’s soaring into the picture like a bomber, fucking up all kinds of shit in its path.

Originality isn’t needed when you produce sounds of dirty, highly distorted, echoed barbarism that distance you from anything weak, mild, timid or even lacking in total holocaust action. From the influence of the bands mentioned, Nocturnal Blood, a surprisingly singular entity, takes no steps forward but accurately and perfectly pays homage to the artists that have defined a sound that, within the spectrum of metal, is unique and original.

Guitars and bass blend in a hypnotic and unrefined onslaught always at full speed with little regard for distinguishing separate strums of the strings, or even separate chords. This musical fistfuck is the signature of what many have coined bestial black metal. This description is earned, and has implications of madness.

Candlelight Records

Blood of Kingu is, to put it simply and inaccurately, Drudkh without the folk atmosphere. This is because the entire band is made up of Drudkh band members. You could say it's just Drudkh playing a different form of black metal, which is what I'll say. Half the band was also in the mighty black metal band Hate Forest. This half I'll also refer to as the Roman half, since that's the name of both of these men. It's not totally correct to say that Blood of Kingu sounds like a mix between Drudkh and Hate Forest, but to some extent that is accurate.  

Roman Saenko is on vocals in Blood of Kingu, and thus you will hear Hate Forest in these vocals -- the earth-shattering roars of some ancient kind of horror and blasphemy, a truly unique voice in metal and among my favorite vocalists. The man sounds nothing like anyone else in black metal, or anyone else in metal for that matter. His unmistakable beastly, guttural vocals are not the kind of vocals that make one envision a man trying his hardest to be "brutal", but it is a voice of genuine evil and rancor.