Okkultokrati are a band from Norway that has been featured before in this zine and plays a mixture of black metal, sludge, d beat, crust, hardcore and punk and this is a review of their 2014 compilation which contains the "Snake Reigns" album I reviewed in 2012 and their 2014 album "Night Jerks" which was released in May by Southern Lord Recordings.
A crust punk style sound starts off the compilation along with some d beats and aggressive non melodic punk vocals and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them and when the music slows down elements of sludge and doom metal can be heard and after awhile grim black metal screams make their presence known on the recording.
Throughout the compilation you can hear a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and on some songs a small amount of acoustic guitars can be heard while some of the heavier riffs are very heavily influenced by Motorhead along with a touch of first wave black metal and when solos and leads are added into the music they add in more of an early 80's metal/punk feeling to the songs and a couple of the tracks are very long and epic in length and the intro on the second album has a horror movie feeling while the rest of the music sticks to a heavy style and they close the recording with a horror move soundtrack style instrumental.
On both of these recordings Okkultokrati take first and second wave black metal and mixes it with sludge, doom metal, crust, d beat and hardcore to create something very original, the production sounds very dark yet heavy while the lyrics cover Satanism, Darkness and Drug themes.
On both of these recordings Okkultokrati take first and second wave black metal and mixes it with sludge, doom metal, crust, d beat and hardcore to create something very original, the production sounds very dark yet heavy while the lyrics cover Satanism, Darkness and Drug themes.
In my opinion this is a very great sounding compilation from Okkultokrati and if you are a fan of black metal, doom, sludge, crust, d beat and hardcore punk, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "No Ouroboros" "I Thought Of Demons" "We So heavy" and "Moon Dagger". 8 out of 10.
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