DEINONYCHUS - The Silence Of December 2-LP (White Vinyl)

Gatefold 2LP (white vinyls) - lim. 200 copies

All those who praise modern necro suicidal black metal need to immediately listen to this record. Anyone who is in love with primitive as hell, sickly, and utterly abysmal metal music must obtain this album! One listen to the title track and I cannot see why anyone of such taste would pass this album up… aside from the use of keyboards.

The first 3 albums by Deinonychus are so fantastic and thrilling. Each one is not only absolutely permeated with the demented, over-indulgent gloominess that trademark to their sound, but is also wholly a unique document of its evolution. And here on the very first, the sound is all juvenile passion, and gloriously so.

Over the course of their next two albums, Deinonychus would evolve this sound until its sophisticated perfection on “Ark of Thought”. But never does “The Silence of December” feel like a lesser example of that album. Like “The Weeping of a Thousand Years” it is too unique in its own right to be regarded as such. It has more obvious black metal themes, more clean guitar, more funeral doom, more youthful energy and aggression, and even a fair bit of humor in its primitive charm. This album is a masterpiece and an example of what will be the future of black metal. And to anyone who likes suicidal or doomish black metal, this album is a MUST listen, for it laid the groundwork for what your favorite bands are doing today.