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Krisiun: Bloodshed

03/11/04 || Lord K Philipson

When I discovered Krisiun quite a few years back, I was blown away. Completely. I remember that a crony of mine (namely Jörgen of The Project Hate-fame, who actually listens to nothing but obscure death and black metal, poor bastard) put “Conquerors of Armageddon” on and told me to listen to it, coz for some reason he thought I’d dig it.

He was right.

For months to come I played nothing but that album, anyone who’s been at my place partying at the time can testify to that. They can also testify to me doing airdrums whenever it got into the stereo. That alone is a good fucken sign of me liking the shit. A lot.

Krisiun came from nowhere for me, and climbed my “you guys are my fucken favourite band”-ladder faster than Ben Johnson could ever eat steroids. That goddamn CD is still one of my all-time death metal faves. Bullshitting with the guys at Wacken some years ago, after witnessing their great show, felt pretty damn nice to say the least. After all, they were one of my fave bands at the time.

After checking out their earlier material, without being too impressed, I stuck to listening to “Conquerors” thinking “the earlier material is as ok as an average blowjob, no more, no less. It serves its duties”.

Then “Ageless Venomous” unfortunately surfaced…

Not so much “unfortunately” becoz of the actual music, it still sounded Krisiun all the way, but the production… That fucken production. Somehow they managed to get the worst triggered bassdrum-sound in the history of metal. And then some. That fact alone really killed the album for yours truly as well as for a lot of other people, well-informed sources (aka my cock) told me. A bag of semen would do a better job sorting a kick-sound for this album. I was dissapointed with Krisiun, and it hurt. Not much and not for long, but it hurt nonetheless.

The follow-up, “Works of carnage”, was planned to be the album that would put Krisiun back on my list of more-than-killer-bands. It definitely was an improvement as far as the bassdrum-sound goes, and they redeemed themselves a little. Still nothing close to the “Armageddon” album though. It sounded Krisiun alright, it was blasting and I liked it. Not loved it, LIKED it.

So, you think personal background-info is irrelevant? Tough.

All at once, in 2004, Century Media has the hots for Global Domination in general and me in particular, coz suddenly I get an e-mail saying that the new Krisiun album is on its way to me. I was thrilled. Very fucken thrilled even. For some reason my faith in Krisiun isn’t easy to wipe out. I found it pretty weird though that their “new” album was coming out so soon after “Carnage”. The promo-CD explained it all; this isn’t exactly a brand new album as one would think. 8 new songs and 4 tracks from their “Unmerciful Order” MCD that was released back in 1993 is what’s to find on this release. When they state “8 new tracks”... Take that with a pinch of salt as 3 of those are just bullshit-intro’s and outro’s and blablabla… So what we are left with really are FIVE new songs that can be categorized as songs. Coz fuck knows intro’s and outro’s ain’t real songs in my book.

Appearantly this album is supposed to show a heavier side of Krisiun instead of Alex’s trademark blasts all the time, which I happen to pretty much love, thank you very much. Opener “Slain Fate” is a “favetrack-to-be” from these Brazilians. Catchy, heavy and brutal riffs all the way, with a little blast-section at the end so we won’t forget what we are listening to. Completely excellent shit people, and Krisiun just moved a few steps up the afore-mentioned ladder again. Fuck knows I have waited for that moment… “Ominous” doesn’t quite reach the standard set by the opener, but nonetheless it’s a blasting death metal tune that will make your cock grow. “Servant of emptiness” raises the level again with its magnificent initial drumbeat. We are talking groove here fucko’s! Naturally Krisiun throw those famous blasts at us (as expected and hoped for) here and there in this one as well. They have their sound you know, and damn you guys if you thought they’d stray away from it. “Eons” can suck my cock. 2 minutes of completely uninteresting effect-laden guitars. It’s not like anyone will go “Fuck, I hope they play ‘Eons’ tonight at the show”. I hate crap like this. Gimme songs, gimme blasts, gimme heaviness!

And so it was done.

“Hateful nature” blasts away from the get-go, leaving few moments to catch your breath before continuing to blast the fuck out of you, me, Wayne Gretzky and The Olsen Twins.

“Visions beyond” is another statement in how to create blistering death fucken metal. It might be that the info-thing on the CD is correct, Krisiun’s decided to throw more heavy parts into their stuff. I appreciate it becoz no matter how much I love blastbeats, it has a tendency to become a bit boring in the long run.

When “Voodoo” opens with its semi-accoustic thing and the tribal drums, I get a full-on Sepultura vibe from it. Or is it a hard-on? A 2 minute instrumental and drum-driven track that really comes across as decent, though it’s not Krisiun to me. But if Sepultura can do the tribal shit, why can’t Krisiun? Anyways, I dig it.

Then it’s the outro… 7 fucken minutes, and out of those 7 minutes I don’t care for a second. And out of those 7 minutes (again), 3 are completely silent, then the bullshit starts over again. Guitar-wankery/plain noises de fucken luxe.

How cool… not.

There we go, a rundown on the new songs from Krisiun. You lot probably heard “Unmerciful Order” as you are “troo” and “kvlt” and all, so I’m not even bothering to go throuh those. I definitely urge you to get this album, if you can find it real cheap, coz paying full price for this is not an option. The new stuff sounds real fucken promising and I’m sure the next full-length will kill. And if I’m lucky, they’ll even top “Conquerors of Armageddon”.

Fat fucken chance.

8 bad outro’s out of 10 for the new tracks, and I count “Voodoo” as one of those, even though I shouldn’t.

Fuck you.

Information
Released: 2004
Label: Century Media
Website: www.krisiun.com.br
Band
Max Kolesne: drums
Alex Camargo: bass & vocals
Moyses Kolesne: guitars

Tracklist
01. Slain fate
02. Ominous
03. Servant of emptiness
04. Eons
05. Hateful nature
06. Visions beyond
07. Voodoo
08. They call me death
09. Unmerciful order
10. Crosses toward hell
11. Infected core
12. Outro

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