Anand VenkitachalamNew Delhi, Feb. 21 -- Black metal as a genre is not often associated with the conventional sense of musicality, but rather, as demonstrated by the majority of bands, it is one that tends to prioritise "rawness" over "songwriting," using hardcore punk's rawness and relentless speed, leading to unrefined atmospheric songwriting, typically resulting in some of the most suboptimal, mediocre, borderline unlistenable songs ever.
But that is not the case with Mayhem, as they displayed on their latest album 'Liturgy of Death'. An unrelenting flurry of grizzly black metal riffs, balanced by a haunting atmosphere and technical precision - one can simply rename this album a Symphony of Evil or Cacophony of Dread, because that's wha...