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CATHOLICON
"The Death Throes Of Christianity"
(Negativity Records)
I've only heard one song by Von and that was a cover by Dark Funeral but
from that I could tell that Von had a certain determination. A similar
determination that Bathory's "The Return"? album also possesses.
Until I heard Catholicon's debut album I hadn't come upon that same determination
in a very long time; that "to not let anything stand in our way"
approach. Just no compromise, no holds barred full on black/death metal.
So it was with wild curiosity that I approached a new album by Catholicon
. Was it possible for them to contain that same determination that I found
on that first album. At first I was kind of disappointed. It felt like
they had sold out. Couldn't feel that same frenzy I felt the first time
but with continuously spins it all came back to me. If you like your black/death
metal with no compromise you just have to look to Catholicon. Were monotony
isn't a weakness but the whole strength. Were simplicity isn't a bad word
but the guiding star. Were posing is a bad thing and true means true to
yourself. Catholicon has managed what many other have failed. To make
me look no further for the most extreme metal I possible could find.
-Anders Ekdahl
CATHOLICON
"Treatise
On The Abyss"
(Negativity
Records)
When I haven't heard a note from a, to me, new band I always make up different scenarios of what I think they'll sound like. It almost always end the same way. What I had imagined is nowhere close the actual sound of the band. But with American Catholicon I kind of got what I expected. A cross between death and black metal that in no way comes close to the Scandinavians but wins points on at least trying. Think a mix of Morbid Angel's "Altars Of Madness" and Emperor's "Anthem To The Welkin At Dusk" and you get a pretty good idea of the chaos Catholicon creates.
Anders Ekdahl