Selbst – An Omnious Landscape (2015)

Always psyched to receive music from Romania’s Sun & Moon Records, today we have Venezuela Black Metal battalion Selbst. This soul crushing mCD release is truly a punishing exercise in BM execution, filled with over 22 minutes of ravaging music that will keep you to the edge of your seat. Expertly crafting an oppressive atmosphere, this is one release that will haunt you for months.

Opening with the relentless “An Omnious Landscape”, this two-man outfit delivers waves after waves of pummeling riffs and hyper-fast drums. There is really no moment to relax in this bestial track that crafts a very dense and crushing atmosphere with only traditional elements. The brutality continues with the imposing “Heterodox Reason”. This track reminds us of a mixture of Gorgoroth and Horna, but with a distinct signature style that has Selbst written all over it.

Closing string with yet another triumphant hymn of darkness, “Aequat Omnes Civis”, the band manages to continue their insane levels of intensity and adds some more brilliant melodic passages that will have you headbanging uncontrollably. Overall, “An Omnious Landscape” is one hell of an album and the perfect launching point for Selbst into the international stage. If you like brutal and ravaging, but well produced Black Metal, this is the release for you.

Label: Sun & Moon Records

Release: December 15th, 2015

Genre: Black Metal

Country: Venezuela