The Key to the Gates of the Apocalypse was the second full-length released by Nokturnal Mortum mainman Knjaz Varggoth under the name Mistiggo Varggoth Darkestra, which incidentally has the best black metal logo of all time. After footsteps through a haunted forest, the program kicks in with some drum machine heavy, later-Bathory worship. Colossal and so deeply occult, The Key To The Gates is not to be missed.
My copy says "The Key to the Gates of Apocalypses," an even better ukrainglish title.
ReplyDeletei really really love your site, thank you for posting the weird sketchy black metal stuff, its my absolute favorite. thanks!
ReplyDeleteThe song/album is "Apocalypses" which is so perfect... Why limit yourself to just one? The funniest thing is that his logo looks so much like graffiti. It wouldn't look out of place on a Lupe Fiasco record. Maybe NSBM loops around when you crawl far enough into it that it turns into hip-hop style.
ReplyDeleteI've never found the album that was prior to this. Anyone know where it might be? I foamed at the mouth when this came out but never found anything else from the Darkestra.
I've heard another album by this entuty and found it to be strangely unappealing. It's out there in the interwebs somewhere.
ReplyDeleteHere's the other full length:
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ReplyDeleteIts always been of interest/amusement to me the way a genre like black metal seems to struggle against the mainstream definitions of various odds and ends only to seem a so curiously rigid discipline.
ReplyDeleteSometimes its like your black metal worth can only be gauged by the awesomeness/indecipherabilty of your logo, the darkly gothic spitefulness of your self proclaimed anonym and the wraith like darkness your band members could be mistaken for when passed by in the street.
That is the sickest logo ever. Amazing. I want to put it on a shirt and have people ask me why I'm wearing a chandelier.
ReplyDeleteOh and I dig the music too. Could do without the P.T. Barnum MC in the background tho.
Holy motherfucker what a logo! The record simply cannot be as ruling as the cover, that's gotta be among the top five best black metal logos I'll ever see. It reminds me of the logo of a band I think was called Compremesis or somesuch (so obscure I can't even find them at Metal archives) that had worms crawling around the letters and was 100% indecipherable.
ReplyDeleteThe best metal appropriation of graffiti was the Grotesque logo, which looks like a bona fide piece outline.
Wow, I listened to the first album... at first I thought it might be like some bad giallo soundtrack but it was just boring/putrid. Maybe he spent all his time drawing his logo and then "Oh, shit! I forgot the music!"
ReplyDeleteGot to pull this one out again some day, it's been a long time... Killer logo indeed!
ReplyDeletePS: 'oudeboc' as word verification, how cool is that? Could be old-Flemish, Lugubrum anyone? ;)
The logo does have an edge over the music, but this is still solid. One 86minute track? I'm going to have to get really stoned for a complete sit-through. Do you have any Endless Dismal Moan? I didn't see any in the archives.
ReplyDeleteholy crap dude! the logo is undecipherable... nokturnal mortum kicks ass!
ReplyDeletegrotesque have a better logo on their cd. that 1 on metal-archives is shit. grotesque is pre-at the gates.
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fuck, this shit is amazing. so massive... i love weird swirly keyboards in black metal
ReplyDeleteimmense, i listened to this while falling aslep last night. such a great atmosphere. i wanna waste my life trying to draw the logo
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