Anaal Nathrakh: Endarkenment 2020

With Endarkenment, they maintain their legacy of aural devastation. However, for all the furor they stir up, the duo have never been a twodimensional entity, with a great deal of depth involved in everything that they do, and on many levels the new record is distinguished from its predecessors. One thing that was very clear to the band was the album"'s title and how prescient it is in current times, standing as the opposite of the Enlightenment, a movement that went against superstition and ignorance. With laying out a plan and then executing it not conducive to the kind of energetic, chaotic vigor Hunt and multi-instrumentalist Mick Kenney look for, the band follow ideas where they are taken by them and work spontaneously. Coining the phrase ""riding a dragon"" when recording - ""making music with a sense that all you can do is hang on"" - this very much embodies the tumultuous racket thrown up by Endarkenment, with its storms of blastbeat driven violence, frenzied riffing and panoramic choruses!