![forbidden tomb / nansarunai – forbidden tomb / nansarunai [split]](https://www.vm-underground.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Forbidden-Tomb-Nansarunai-Split-cover.jpg "Forbidden Tomb / Nansarunai – Forbidden Tomb / Nansarunai [Split]")
Info
- Band(s): Forbidden Tomb, Nansarunai
- Label(s): Ancient Horror Records, Banner of Blood, Inferna Profundus Records, Reaping Death Records
- Release Format(s): 12" vinyl, Cassette, Split
- Release Year: 2021
- Review Date: July 17, 2024
- Author(s): LV
Two raw, lo-fi noisy Black Metal acts from fucking Indonesia! Forbidden Tomb is from South Tangerang, Banten and Nansarunai is also from somehere (wtf?) in Indonesia.
Both these bands deal in unbridled aggressive lo-fi Black Metal, drenched in distortion and feedback and painfully LOUD as fuck – the exact requirements for this type of Black Metal music.
The split cassette was originally released by Indonesian Reaping Death Records, the vinyl version by Banner of Blood & Inferna Profundus Records, and the digital portion by the band itself.
Due to an unknown PC glitch and a storage failure at our offices, a decent review was postponed and a replacement file for the lost album had to be found first. As if the godz didn’t want us to review this gem.
But here it is – united in blasphemy and noise, Forbidden Tomb opens this massacre: the ‘Burning Path of Thy Ancestor’ instrumental reveals a heavily distorted guitar, drums being mistreated birth concrete pylons and before you realize it, ‘Gaze of Perversion’ kicks the chair underneath you. With more compression than on the latest album of Greek Μνήμα, topped with bellowing bass shards, loud ritualistic “drum abuse” and a coarse diabolical screech/psychotic scratching of claws on a schoolboard, genre Black Cilice/Reveant Marquis and assorted semi-occult, misanthropic lunatics – this act stomps and stabs its way through 3 songs, the one even more delicate (sic) than the other. It’s not clipped/oversteered blind noise, there’s structure in this punkish linear sludgy mayhem but measures were taken to make it sound as uncomfortable as possible. What a sonic outburst!
Next are the mysterious Nansarunai (I really get less and less intel witch each new review here), this is their second output and as this review was plagued by technical difficulties, they have released splits with Arazuback and Wampyric Rites before hitting us heard over the skull with their 2020 full length ‘Ruins of the Moonlight Temple’.
Nansarunai play filthy maggot-ridden murky Dungeon Synth combined with highly inflammable with jetblack (fast) lo-fi Raw Black Metal. This vitriolic music corrodes everything it encounters, making you have a nosebleed, while the rest of the music does its best to saw right through your cranial plate. The vocals are typical for the genre, feral and etherial. The sound is so deliciously lo-fi my pants fell down 3 times during interrupted listening seances. It also appeared some elderly hag suffered a stroke and she lives three freaking (!!) blocks away from my crypt.
In general, I’d say Nanasarunai gives the best performance and Forbidden Tomb decays a bit slower but isn’t lesser in dispuking and stinking noise. Fans of underground bands from the Black Gangrene/Altarage roster/label and other specialized raw lo-fi dealers know where they can get their fix, if they haven’t already had it. Other curious people really should hit the media/shops for more info and the entire VM-Underground staff ought to be skinned alive for being such a flock of lazy, amateuristic cunts that let this gem unattended for so long. I know where you bastards dwell!
Reaping Death Records
- Country: Indonesia
- Style: Death Metal
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