AD HOMINEM - Totalitarian Black Metal review

 

AD HOMINEM - Totalitarian Black Metal

Osmose Productions

There's a reason why there's no Bandcamp link for you to check out and instead I give you a Youtube link. It's because AD HOMINEM are hated and cancelled from certain platforms. Now personally I'm a fan of AD HOMINEM. I got into em with their Climax of Hatred full length from 2005. I've always considered em one of the best bands the French Black Metal scene had to offer over the decades. 

So before I get into this latest full length. I wanna make a point to acknowledge a few things. Black Metal is pretty much about hate. And sometimes that hatred is directed toward religion. Now there are people who think it's fine if Black Metal acts have songs attacking one major religion aka: Christianity. But these same people also believe if a band attacks the two other major Abrahamic religions then they're horrible and need to be cancelled. To me that's the stance of a hypocrite and you shouldn't be listening to Black Metal at all. 

Now Totalitarian Black Metal (great title by the way) is AD HOMINEM's seventh full length since starting out back in the late 1990's. Kaiser Wodhanaz performs all instruments and vocals. Musically for the past two decades AD HOMINEM's sound is basically a French version of Panzer Division era MARDUK. You've got this ferocious sound from the start of this release. The guitar work is vicious, the drum work is in almost constant blast beat mode.

Of course Kaiser has that hate filled bestial scream to his vocals which makes the songs sound even more aggressive. There's nine cuts overall in a little over thirty one minutes. I like most of the songs but there are stand outs like the title track which will rip your fuckin head off. "Choke the Woke" is a Black n Roll cut which will piss off the hiptards. "The Nuclear Solution" is a fuckin blast fest. I mean this is fuckin slam pit action Black Metal. "Saturday Night Gulag" is also a ripper. 

In the end you've got to be intelligent enough to get the joke. Kaiser Wodhanaz is just a master troll who knows what buttons to push to piss off the weak losers out there. Of course he does it via great sounding furious Black Metal. This is another great album by AD HOMINEM. I'd say the cover art is better than the last two CDs. I want it as a large poster. Kaiser Wodhanaz has a formula to his BM sound that works.  

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LISTEN HERE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaCNSKYsW_0