Axeman – “Arrive” – [Crepusculo Negro]

Project of Black Twilight Circle cult member Volahn, collaborating with fellow henchmen Arizmenda and Impious. This is not, however, black metal. A countryfied acoustic intro with some synthefied spaciness opens the album. As the drums signal a turn into some hair metal Slash attacks we get a slight hint of cheese stink, until the snarling vocals come in fully tortured fury lamenting the extermination of ancient cultures (see European Colonialism). They call this war metal, maybe the reactionary outgrowth of the hate and anguish that is black metal, like rounding up an oppressed people to raid the villages of the oppressed, burning and pillaging all the way. I imagine they really hoped 2012 would be the end, and the Mayans would prove victorious afterall, witnessing the obliteration of the white devils that raped their land and history. We could always pick up where they left off…