Description

2020 press on black vinyl with booklet and poster.

Being the second full-length album of Katharsis, this piece of black metal blasphemy has taken these three Germans style a little more further away from the Darkthrone-style of black metal, which was quite present on the 666 album. That album is very good as well, but that’s not the point. Production-wise, there are no big differences between Kruzifixxion and 666. No bass, and the thin guitars, carton-sounding drums and the morbid shrieks are all covered up in reverb. Despise what you might think, the production on this album is pretty clear and everything is well audible. The album starts with a very high pitched scream, and the killer song that is The Last Wound. It goes on in a quite chaotically black metal-manner until the finale that is a quite atmospheric melody (and perhaps the only real on the album) finishes the song off. Between each song there are some sentences spoken out low backwards, nothing spectacular but it adds some to the unpleasant atmosphere I get when I listen to this album. I guess this is the real power of the album – An unpleasant atmosphere created by harsh, thin music and really impressing vocals in my opinion. The booklet is also filled with blasphemous illustrations and lyrics. So this is a good album, certainly not as easy-listened as 666 (If you can call that easy-listening, that is), and Katharsis has a style more of their own now. Fans of harsh black metal, check this out

Track list:
1. The Last Wound
2. Painlike Paradise
3. The Chosen One
4. Blood Stainth The Temple Stones
5. Luziferion
6. Infernal Solar Vortexx (A Vision In Three Parts)