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Binah:
A Triad of Plagues Review + Stream

Label: Dark Descent Records

With OSDM taking hold once again in recent years, itโ€™s become something of a double-edged sword for bands looking to make a name for themselves. On the one hand, there is certainly a market for the style; but on the other, itโ€™s also easy to get lost in the shuffle and pass by relatively unnoticed. Case in point: Binah. Despite releasing an incredibly varied, crushing, well-thought-out debut album and being signed to the ever-expanding underground label Dark Descent records, these guys donโ€™t seem to be getting the same level of attention some of their label mates are getting. Maybe itโ€™s just me, but this trio hailing from the UK needs more praise!

Especially so now that theyโ€™ve successfully followed up their debut with another slab of bone crunching, occult Death Metal in the form of their new EP entitled A Triad of Plagues โ€” a release that opens with โ€œRupture of Silence,โ€ a song that begins with a wicked solo and progresses onward and upward with a tremendously catchy riff set and uncompromising brutality. It also features another solo about midway through that strips flesh from bone and catapults the song forward rather tastefully. You know youโ€™re in for a treat when you browse the lyrics beforehand and notice the line โ€œprimordial paths to heaven blasted with dynamiteโ€. That stood out to me, and I feel itโ€™s a good representation of what the music embodies: a complete and absolute refutation of the order imposed by the Holy Father.

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The following track, โ€œHempiteran Maraud,โ€ is more of a quick hitter, clocking in at just one minute and thirty nine seconds and punishes from start to finish. Again, the talents of Binah are on display here, but in a more subtle manner, as jutting lead work manifests beneath the folds of chainsaw riffing and low, guttural vocals. Itโ€™s a song that is best appreciated with repeated listens, as its depth and complexity can easily pass you by in a flash on the first go around.

The closing plague, โ€œTorbid Blight of the Spirit,โ€ begins slowly, and has a much more concentrated build up than its prior counterparts. It has a rather decidedly eerie, bleak feel to it, as its theme seems to be chiefly concerned with the woes of mankind in the post-modern world. Lines like โ€œDreams and hopes sold for dimes to wretched machineryโ€ and โ€œJaded, sleepless, and swamped by stimuliโ€ point clearly to the blight experienced by the human spirit that has lost its way in its foolish quest for certitude and comfort. Thereโ€™s still plenty of Death Metal crunch and punch to its composition, but the feelings of endless languishing pervade, serving as an appropriate death knell to this three-pronged work of black art.

Once again, Binah has delivered in a big way in 2014 and is a band everyone should watch closely in the years to come. Fans of OSDM in the Scandinavian (a la Entombed and Demigod) vein in particular should get quite a kick out of this. Full fucking support.

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