Arizmenda: Within the Vacuum of Infinity (2009)

Arizmenda is another Black Twilight Circle band.  It is a one-man project of Murdunbad who has also done work in Dolorvotre, Kuxan Suum and Ashdautas, mostly as a drummer.  He has branched out significantly for his Arizmenda project.

This is Arizmenda's first full-length album and the best way to describe the sound is as a wall of noise.  The album is completely chaotic with lo-fi distortion, pounding drums and shrieking vocals.  The songs are all quite long and for the most part, fairly repetitive.  Each song is at least eight minutes long.  The album itself is something of an exercise in patience for the listener.  There is very little melody and very little reprieve from the constant, bludgeoning noise.  It is still recognizable as black metal, but Arizmenda's goal seems to be to make as much noise as possible.

This is a difficult album to listen to, but it is impressive in its own right.  The music is vile and hateful, but well, this is black metal after all.  And I have said time and again that the more hateful styles of black metal are the ones that speak to me the most.  That continues to be true with this album.  This is yet another shining example of a Black Twilight Circle release and proof that the scene is kind of all over the place when it comes to the sound.