{"id":42418,"date":"2011-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/zos-kia-cultus\/"},"modified":"2011-09-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T00:00:00","slug":"zos-kia-cultus","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/zos-kia-cultus\/","title":{"rendered":"Zos Kia Cultus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behemoth is not a new band. Never heard of them? I didn\u2019t have any inkling until recently that they have had five previous releases and that this one, Zos Kia Cultus<\/i>, is from 2002. It appears I\u2019m behind the times in the death metal movement. What drew me back into the scene was a recent news clipping on a news site I visit regularly<\/a>, which reported that the lead singer of this band was within his legal right to go on a tirade about the Bible and then rip it up. Of course, that piqued my curiosity. <\/p>\n

This is a punishing release. Opener \u201cAs Above So Below\u201d thunders the double bass drums as the guitars relentlessly zig and zag in syncopation. Throughout the chaos are these guttural vocals. I almost turned it off after one song. Had I done so, I would not have heard the amazing drum fills by Inferno on \u201cHarlot Ov The Saints,\u201d the fourth track. Of course, I had to go look at YouTube to see if this drumming was machine or human. It\u2019s a human machine. There are tons of drum solos on YouTube \u2013 search for \u201cBehemoth Inferno drum solo\u201d and you\u2019ll find plenty of material. <\/p>\n

Before I fell into a bromance with Inferno, I felt I needed to at least finish listening to the entire album at least once. Negral growls and leads the band through a bunch of material with lyrics I would rather not sing along to. Lead\/rhythm guitarist Havok scales the mountain of guitar solos with blistering speed. I\u2019m not sure who came up with the riff of \u201cHere And Beyond,\u201d but it\u2019s a track I will revisit in the future. As with most bands, not just death metal, I can\u2019t hear bassist Novy and have no idea what he is playing. I also liked \u201cHorns Ov Baphomet\u201d even though I don\u2019t know why it wasn\u2019t called \u201cHorns Of Baphomet\u201d except that \u201cov\u201d sounds more evil, I guess, than \u201cof.\u201d <\/p>\n

Now just because this is a new band to me and has been around to record five previous releases doesn\u2019t give the band a pass on being a grade A band. On the contrary, I found the music not all that, well, interesting. Sure, it\u2019s fast. Sure, the musical talent is there for 3\/4ths of the band. Sure, it sounds like evil and sure, since, per the Internet, \u201cthe Behemoth is a mythological beast mentioned in the Book of Job, 40:15-24\u201d and has been known to \u201cbe used for any extremely large or powerful entity,\u201d I can say it is a suitable name.<\/p>\n

At the end of a couple of listens, I came to a middle ground. The band is fast, the band is evil, and not something I think anyone I know would like. For a death metal band, though, they are as good as they can be. I don\u2019t know how often I will revisit this release, but if nothing else, the drumming is amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8744],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-42418","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-behemoth","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42418"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42418"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}