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World Without End
Katharsis
World Without End
Genres: New Age, Rock, Metal
 
  •  Track Listings (6) - Disc #1

Third full-length from this hellish noise-making cult from Germany. Their masterpiece, without any doubt. Excellent packaging, as you can expect fromt the Ajna Offensive label.

     
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All Artists: Katharsis
Title: World Without End
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Southern Lord
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 10/31/2006
Album Type: Live
Genres: New Age, Rock, Metal
Styles: Progressive, Progressive Metal, Death Metal
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 808720061529, 3760068231576, 376006823157

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Third full-length from this hellish noise-making cult from Germany. Their masterpiece, without any doubt. Excellent packaging, as you can expect fromt the Ajna Offensive label.
 

CD Reviews

Decrepit and frenzied uncatchy black metal for rancid minds
The Stablekeeper | Baltimore, MD United States | 11/30/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)

"I will warn you first: This album is not as easily digestible or as immediately gratifying as the prior Katharsis tirades: "666" & "Kruzifixxion" . And the boys go really wacky with the creative black metal phraseology on this one. The vinyl and CD both look exceptional, though the vinyl has superior depitions of the band members inside (somewhat similar to the Cattle Decapitation "spanish language" 7 inch). However, Katharsis seem to always deliver their unique take on what I would say is a completely savage and corrosive black metal attack. They truely throw down on the final track, the title cut, a track which abolishes the rules and serves as the apocalyptic standout, tour-de-force, denoumement, and all that jazz. The Katharsis vocal now featured on this platter has a totally trippy slapback delay "echoed beyond recognition" vibe. Killer. The guitar are still seething, but there seems to be a humble old-school craziness to it like they've been getting more into totally uncatchy true metal, for instance I find a good comparison to be SODOM's "obsessed by cruelty." Totally wicked and destructive musical visions are shared. Katharsis are also not afraid to incorporate totally possessed by criminal insanitity sinister cackling into their music. WHat you have to do is just keep listening to this album over and over, and just indulge in the complete turbulence and damage that this band is seeking. This is also not a LIVE album, and is distro'd by Southern Lord only. Do not expect a fun or simple listen, even for the fans."
Intensely furious burst after harsh hellish blast of ultra i
Aquarius Records | San Francisco | 11/02/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Similar to the West Coast axis of US black metal, Leviathan, Xasthur, Draugar, Crebain, etc... there is another less geographically based hub, centered around French label Norma Evangelium Diaboli, a label that has managed to gather up most of the super intense, ultra progressive new wave of black metal bands: Deathspell Omega, Funeral Mist, Antaeus, Katharsis... Every record gorgeously designed, and inside each, all manner of black metal conventions twisted into uniquely hellish shapes. It's a bit surprising NED hasn't swooped in and tried to add Leviathan to their elite black brood. But while Leviathan is indeed twisted in his own way, there is definitely a distinctly European feel to the bands on NED.



Where as DSO are like a black metal Slint, with epic arrangements of black buzz and plenty of brooding post rock passages, and Funeral Mist are a grim black horde with massive production, creeped out ambience and thick swaths of impossibly pummeling brutality, Katharsis are a spastic, "Kommando Metal" blast of blackened thrashing drums and buzzing insect guitars, bizarre reverb drenched psychedelic leads and freaked out vocals that scream, howl, growl and shriek, all smeared into massive black squalls of relentless blackthrash. This German outfit are not about subtlety, their sound is intensely furious burst after harsh hellish blast of ultra intense, brittle and buzzy black metal, channelling the old school classics through their own cracked and screwed perspective.



But it's the epic album closer, the 16 minute title track "VVorld VVithout End" where the band really push the limits, and take their own peculiar black metal into totally new realms, slowing down to a buzzing Burzumic midtempo lope, slipping into a weirdly propulsive groove, when suddenly insane falsetto vocals, and keening high end lead guitars whirl into a bizarre super dramatic, super tense minor key crescendo, then returning to the same buzzy groove. This happens a few more times, before everything sort of collapses into thick swirling thrashing chaos, multiple vocals, some shrieking, some grunted and spoken, bits of hysterical laughter, tangled and convoluted buzzing riffs, angular melodies, all crashing and slamming into each other, drunkenly slipping from lightning fast blast to lugubrious crawl to midtempo lurch in a dizzying fade to black. So godd-mn good.



And as with all NED releases, amazing packaging!"