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- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock, Alternative Experimental
- Label: Southern Lord
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The cover art may ape Nick Drake, but the closest Japanese metal trio Boris comes to a ballad is the blank space between the songs. A grim, harrowing descent into darkness, Akuma No Uta takes the pitch-black witch rock of early Sabbath and delivers it with an eye-popping fury. But even though the songs are moving at a breakneck pace, they still sound gloriously waterlogged. The guitar tone on "Ibitsu" is so low it threatens to detonate the subwoofer — it's a 900 pound St. Bernard that moves with the velocity of a stock car.
There's a weird kind of "otherness" to the songs. It's not just that the lyrics are in Japanese, or that the 10-minute introduction is little more than a toneless, ethereal drone. There's a kind of heft and weight and urgency to the music that makes Akume sound like an artifact from a whole lost civilization. Paradoxically, it gets more mysterious, more cryptic and more fascinating with each pass.
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| 01. |  |
Introduction |
9:41 |
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| 02. | |
Ibitsu |
3:21 |
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| 03. | |
Furi |
3:19 |
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| 04. | |
Naki Kyoku |
12:13 |
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| 05. | |
Ano Onna No Onryou |
6:28 |
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| 06. | |
Akuma No Uta |
4:00 |
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06 Total Tracks, 39:02 Total Length
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