Words Eddy Hanna
Warpact in Black On November 9, 2013, Hatecrowned released and sold hard copies of their first EP “Warpact in Black”. This album preserves many aspects of the First Wave of Black Metal excluding the instrumental low pitch; Hatecrowned’s instruments are clear and empowering. They are vigorously rich in the many Black Metal aspects of Double Bass and Blast Beat drumming and Tremolo Picking. The vocals are mostly shrieked like a dry corpse and at lesser times growled like a hungry ghoul. But what makes this album distinct from any other is that this is the first Lebanese Metal album that has every song in it in Arabic, with lyrics that are well written and almost poetic. It consists of four tracks as follows: TRACK 1: UNTITLED The first track is, in fact, not untitled, but both the title and the lyrics are confidential. I do assure you though that it has enough massive hatred lurking out in every second that you’ll still enjoy it. It is generally very upbeat with a few breaks and melodic solos in there. TRACK 2: RAJE’A YETDAMMAR LEBNAN This is a Symphonic Black Metal song, a Blackened version of the Lebanese hit song “Raje’a Yetaamar Lebnan”; taken to a strictly pessimistic perspective that ironically remains intact within a realistic measure. Lyrically, this is a song about how close we are to religious conflict alongside various other political aspects that WILL lead us to war and destruction again. It is decorated with the wise usage of back up female vocals and keyboards as ensemble strings in the background. TRACK 3: OSQOT YA INSAN This is the song to headbang to in the album. There’s an obvious focus on Blast Beat drumming in the intro
and the singer sounds like he has been engraved dead till his lungs filled with dirt, in a good way. There is also a beautiful, unique mid-solo at one third of the song. Lyrically, it portrays a misanthropic, nihilistic view on humanity. Dominated by their own evil, mankind destroy their only earth (God’s means of torturing man), leaving death as our only salvation. The outro of this song is played on a nylon guitar while sound effects of burning and chaining a woman are heard; sound effects I feel
I should not ask many questions about. TRACK 4: YOUSBAGH AL-KAWN BE LAWN AL-BA’S This is an Ambient Depressive Black Metal song. It plays both drum killing upbeat Black Metal and, for half the song in the middle, a downbeat sort of Melodic Doom Metal sense. It narrates, poetically, the pains of this strangling earth and its murderous despair on a personal level.
There is only one thing I feel I should note concerning this album. The musicianship excels in creativity and uniqueness in both lyrics and music, but I would prefer more diaphragm usage in the vocal growls. I feel that then, this album would be perfect.
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