Origin: Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷
Genre: Black Metal
Black metal used to be dangerous – a malevolent form of expression that literally struck terror into the hearts of those who didn’t understand it or who lived in fear of The Devil. That was and still is – to a certain degree – its allure. Now, we find ourselves in an age where BM has been commercialized and made into something much safer due to whorish mainstream bands whose interests have little to do with the integrity of the music or the pride of the scene. In this modern era, true black metal’s place is beneath the surface. And if you actually venture a bit further still beyond even what’s considered to be the most underground, you might encounter Kanvass.
Brazil’s Kanvass have been spreading death and executing defectors since 2008 in their mission to make black metal criminal again. And now in the wake of plague and upon the onset of a new dark age, Kanvass are set to unleash upon a scene that is probably still not ready for them the newest and deadliest weapon in their cache, “Generation of Deserters”. Not for the weak-willed or the faint of heart. Black metal for revolution and a message to the scene as to the lethality of this movement that promises to soil the pants of our enemy scum the world over. After all, this is war and the time to choose a side has come… “Generation of Deserters” is scheduled to be released on April 1 via Hammer of Damnation.
With “Generation of Deserters”, Kanvass are obliterating everything you thought you knew about black metal. A musical homage to the likes of Gorgoroth, Tsjuder and Urgehal but ultimately a different sort of beast. Deadly to the max yet disciplined and with execution-style homicide down to an art are Kanvass. And with “Generation”, they’ve brought guns to a knife fight. No mercy as tracks like “Angel Molester” and “SataniKommando” – in all of their divinity-raping glory – unfold with a newer and deathlier kind of blasphemy. Compositions air-tight and played out with surgical precision in all-out-warmongering album cuts: “Sovereignty – the Arts of Mars” and “Twilight of Ignorance” – specimens of what today’s black metal should sound like, devoid of cliches and downright intimidating.
Black metal does not get much more volatile and this is the way it’s supposed to be. The pentagram and inverted cross? Child’s play in comparison to the implements of destruction that Kanvass are bringing to the table – weaponry designed to annihilate ignorance and lay waste to the passive. And musically? We’re talking BM on a purely aggressive front – much like battle – nasty, brutal and unpredictable. A new war is upon us! Where’s your loyalty?
8.5/10
Experience “Sovereignty – the Arts of Mars” from “Generation of Deserters” right here:
~Jeger
