Description

Official French cassette. Plain black cassette. Limited 300 copies

Chicago’s Kommandant boasts a rogues gallery of current and former members from numerous extreme US underground acts like Blood Coven, Funereal, Forest Of Impaled, Cumchrist and Nachtmystium. So you can be assured this will not be a walk through a sunny park, flowers in bloom as puppies chase one another round by the tail. No, this is full on black metal force, about as straightforward as the genre gets within the confines of anti-human warfare, a suitable follow-up for their 2008 debut Stormlegion. The band are huge on driving speed, and much of the 20 minutes of the EP blast on by with all the care of a freight train about to cross the boundaries to oblivion, reminiscent of overseas acts like vintage Myrkskog and the more unrelenting artists within the Swedish scene. Kommandant is not huge on riffs: those present may at times feel familiar or derivative, and yet that’s not necessarily the impact the band seem intent on. They exist in small numbers, but rarely do they stand out beyond their function as enzymes to the napalm blitzing razor warfare or the full, blood-gouged growling of frontman Nick Hernandez. Kommandant seem to have an excellent grasp of creating nihilistic atmosphere with solid production values for their genre, and a few of the songs here will certainly get the blood in a rage. Their overall tone and image really mesh well with the intelligent and interesting titles and rhythmic overtures, but not all of the songs threw me into a frenzy, simply because they were lacking standout elements but there aren’t that many Us black metal band that perform this nuclear black art so Kommandant may one day record something that will kill us all.

Track list:
1. KK66N6ZT
2. Anti Human Nemesis
3. Codex Gigas
4. Der Maschinenraum
5. Sulphur Chariot
6. The Genesis Reaktor