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 ANAAL NATHRAKH Endarkenment By Nathan Dufour, Great White North Friday, December 11, 2020 @ 1:07 PM
This album has everything that I want, as a listener, from ANAAL NATHRAKH. And then some. Beginning very strongly with the title track, "Endarkenment" shows true growth for a band that has always been about forward momentum while smashing genres together with the gravity and urgency of a black hole. Included here is an earworm with pronged barbs in the outstanding interplay of a lead and stupefyingly catchy chorus, clean singing and all. Now, ANAAL NATHRAKH have always toyed with various ends of the extreme metal spectrum, to varying success, but not before has an album started so hopeful. I mean just listen to that chorus. Of course then second track "Thus, Always to Tyrants" is just bonkers in the most perfect way. This one-two hit is really indicative of how Endarkenment plays out - a study in brutality but also shocking contrast.
A clear standout among many standouts is the gorgeously titled “Create Art, Though the World May Perish”. The song encapsulates everything great about ANAAL NATHRAKH and distills the myriad high points of Endarkenment into one song. It should have been the single but really every song is a hit.
Endarkenment shows ANAAL NATHRAKH at their strongest point yet, purveyors and gate keepers of some of the most exciting extreme metal of this or any other year, whatever year it is now… Listen to music loud enough you don’t hear the collapse.
4.5 Out Of 5.0
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I can’t understate just how listenable this album is. It may be the climate currently, but I am not tired of it and do tend to find, as with anything, that I need a little more variety than the usual ANAAL NATHRAKH album (and I have a lot of them). Plainly put, Endarkenment is rather joyful. It is also very, very heavy. The riff in “Libidinous…” is just unstoppable as is the lyrical content of the whole album. Vocals are deserving of special mention here as well as they are almost intelligible which is not at all to the detriment of the aural assault that takes place on track after track after track. Oh, and there is a lyric video as well for "The Age of Starlight Ends". Do you know when ANAAL NATHRAKH publishes lyrics? The answer is never. So there is that.
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