Original, but still pretty bad – 20%
OakenHelm, January 17th, 2008
Black Funeral are a band I have heard a lot about, but very little of. Bought at a time when I would buy just about any “out there” black metal release, Ordog looked like it would appeal to me, given my adoration of other industrial BM bands like Blut Aus Nord and Spektr. And worst comes to worst, it could be great in the “so bad it’s actually really good way” like, say, Striborg. So what could I not like?
Almsot all of it, actually.
I tend to like raw production, especially in black metal since it makes the music seem more sincere for some odd reason, but this is past the point of raw and into the realm of ludicrous. If I wanted to listen to noise I’d put in fucking Merzbow. This may even have been engineered to sound worse than it actually is – it wouldn’t surprise me given the “blacker than the blackest black, times infinity” attitude of “Baron Drakkonian Abaddon” (black metal names just keep getting worse and worse…). The drums are absolutely atrocious, the vocals obnoxious, and almost everything else is just a blur of white noise with something approaching a melody infrequently surfacing. I believe it was Erik Thomas who put it best; to paraphrase, “this sounds like an untuned AM radio.” Pretty grim, eh? It sounds like Spektr without any sense of composition or musical taste. Don’t ask me to recall anything remotely memorable about this release even after multiple listens (a chore if ever there was one), because I can’t remember a single thing that stood out.
However, credit must be given when it is due. The lyrics are outstanding, and the Baron certainly achieved his most likely goal of pissing everyone off. Plus, the ladies he got to work with him on this album are quite the eye-candy….if these last couple of sentences are an indication, I’m trying to find anything particularly good about this album on a musical level and failing.
To be totally fair though, this is pretty hilarious, as are those people who strive for a deeper meaning in all of this. Albums like this are why people make fun of black metal.
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