Voices: London

Do these people look remotely black metal to you?

Then you need to listen to what their music has to say about them. Black metal musicians are necessarily the associates of satan & observe a head-to-toe black outfit sporting abhorrent corpse paint- not in this time & age. So what is essentially black metal? It is definitely what Voices churns out in this release. I hold this album in high regard not only for the band's embrace of the genre but for its overall intelligence. Anaal Nathrakh's The Codex Necro & Mayhem's A Grand Declaration of War are categorically of similar intelligence. In fact, I hear a technical parallel of the spoken words in London & that contained in A Grand Declaration of War. So is that a good thing? Definitely. It goes to show that there exist a generation of black metal purveyors who understand the pre-requisite of the genre without the need to embrace the facade.