Description

With all those technical and progressive bands that had sprouted out around the extreme music scene of France, it’s sometimes easy to forget just how talented and good their black metal groups really are. Bands like Deathspell Omega, Blut Aus Nord, Aosoth and The 135 are just some of the few French black metal acts that had manufactured a number of remarkable and instructively typical records that enthusiasts of the said genre had enjoyed listening to in the 21st century. Novae Militiae belongs to this circle of proficient class talents. Novae Militiae is a black metal band hailing from the most populous city of France, Paris. With the release of the debut full-length Affliction Of The Divine the group had made their name notable to the scene and had impressed a crowd of fans of black metal. The thing about this offering is that the atmosphere here has that manner of totally working its way into the listeners heads. Each of the five tracks in this album has that cold, grim, and evil atmosphere that a good black metal offering should have. When we talk about the vocal delivery, it correlates well with the songs in the record. Its rough, yet toned down, and jarring to the senses ethos made it well-suited to the debut’s hecatomb leitmotif undercurrent. And, as always when it comes to crude and unrefined album production, I most certainly dig the unclean and anarchic production did by the audio engineer. The mixing had intensified the whole offering with its raw assembly. Affliction Of The Divine is one of the most authentic twenty-first-century black metal releases out there. Track this album down if youre looking for a grimly meditative extreme music record.

Track list:
1. Untitled
2. Affliction Of The Divine
3. Faithfully Reduced To Ashes
4. Untitled
5. The End Shall Be Sent From Heaven