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°  ÛÛ    ÛÛ     Artist: Misanthropic Might                     ÛÛ    ÛÛ
   ²   Û°° þÛ       Album: Menschenhasser                          Ûþ °°Û
   þ    Û²ß Û        Year: 2014                                    Û ß²Û   °
         Û  ²   Rel. Date: 2016-01-17                              ²  Û
        ±   ±       Genre: Black Metal                             ±   ±
         ÛÜ °       Label: Black Skull Records                     ° ÜÛ
      °   ÛÜ  °    Source: CD                                    °  ÜÛ
      °      Û²      Type: Album                                 ²Û        °
      ²       Û   Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo            Û   °     ²
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            Û  As usual, here we are in 2015, and we are           Û
            Û  unearthing a few 2014 releases worth your time.     Û
            Û  Amid the many 2014 releases I overlooked is this    Û
            Û  album I randomly downloaded amid all of the         Û
            Û  digital promos we get sent having no idea about     Û
            Û  the band at all. But the internet helped me out…    Û
            Û  Apparently, despite being around since 2001 this    Û
            Û  is only the second album from Austria’s             Û
            Û  Misanthropic Might, (they released their debut      Û
            Û  Misanthropic War over a decade ago) who shares      Û
            Û  members with death metal act Parental Advisory.     Û
            Û  But it’s a pretty damn good effort of Dark          Û
            Û  Funeral-ish wall of noise, razor sharp, slightly    Û
            Û  melodic black metal furor, that also has some       Û
            Û  early Cradle of Filth riffs and high pitched        Û
            Û  screams, just minus the Gothic bullshit.            Û
            Û  Don’t let the COF comparison fool you, it’s only    Û
            Û  in the shrieks, a few deep bellows and fierce       Û
            Û  blasts, as the DF reference is pretty dominating,   Û
            Û  I actually thought third track “Doomsday” was a     Û
            Û  cover song from Secrets of the Black Arts, being a  Û
            Û  dead ringer for the albums opening track (which of  Û
            Û  course could be wholly intentional). And the album  Û
            Û  is littered with many frosty, tremolo picked icy    Û
            Û  blasts that will make you shiver, making for a      Û
            Û  pretty under that radar release that fans of the    Û
            Û  style should check out.                             Û
            Û  Along with the aforementioned “Doomsday”, the       Û
            Û  likes of “Fallen Kingdom”, delivered with perfect   Û
            Û  control and pacing amid the vitriol, and utterly    Û
            Û  blistering, personal favorite, “Human Scum”, which  Û
            Û  even hints at a sort of Zyklon like, mechanical     Û
            Û  death metal intensity, the album , even at 46       Û
            Û  minutes, is a force to be reckoned with. And while  Û
            Û  the 8 songs are pretty long for this style, it      Û
            Û  never loses steam and shows just enough variety     Û
            Û  (i.e some melodic leads in closer “Becoming the     Û
            Û  Misanthrope”, some movie samples) to hold your      Û
            Û  interest, and be a black metal band I will be       Û
            Û  keeping an eye on, assuming they don’t wait         Û
            Û  another 10 years.                                   Û
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            °  1.  War                                       5:41  °
            °  2.  Menschenhasser                            5:38  °
            °  3.  Doomsday                                  4:17  °
            °  4.  Fallen Kingdom                            6:04  °
            °  5.  Touched by Fire                           4:51  °
            °  6.  Sunset in Hell                            6:53  °
            °  7.  Human Scum                                5:44  °
            °  8.  Becoming the Misanthrope                  7:06  °
            °                                               46:14  °