AEA zine review issue #15

SOUTHERN EXTREMITY Hymns Of Darkness And Hate

Southern Extremity is an extreme black/death metal band originating from Italy, named after what might be if the northern extremity was known as heaven. Since forming in 2008 they unleashed a handful of promo releases which received some favorable reviews, including their CD demo Worlds Apart. Their first full length recording Hymns Of Darkness And Hate is an exercise in primal guitar progressions, inspired partly early Norse and Swedish black metal with shades of brutal death metal, persistent blast beats and demonic high pitched vocals giving an impression of a fresh corpse crawling from a pine box. What you can expect from this recording is an endless onslaught of rawness and intensity, abrasive and hypnotically repetitive on several occasions, blending brutality and misanthropy at the core of the songwriting. The varying degrees of blast throughout the CD is easily convincing while Southern Extremity slow toward even deeper nihilism on some songs. All ten tracks from Hymns Of Darkness And Hate can be heard at Southern Extremity’s MySpace profile and website. -Dave Wolff
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