Dodsferd - 'Suicide And The Rest Of Your Kind Will Follow'

Black metal performer Wrath issues a new two-song album under Dodsferd with repeat drone patterns and scalding agony.

Black metal is the most confrontational form of music expressionism there is and Wrath of Dodsferd has no qualms in challenging taste with albums titled F**king Your Creation and Cursing Your Will to Live.

Recording-wise, Wrath is poisonously efficient with his Dodsferd projects, now releasing his fourth album since 2007, Suicide and the Rest of Your Kind Will Follow. Spend some time with Wrath and his cheerless and you will likely come out of the experience scarred for better or worse, likely skewed to the latter.

Suicide and the Rest of Your Kind Will Follow features only two songs for a composite playing time of 37 minutes, but after the first 20 comprising the title track, the feeling you’ve been germinated with unadulterated detestation for everything around you is going to cling upon your ears—if not your soul—if you’re not careful. The seductive dankness of Wrath’s repetitive guitar sways and obscene howls of anguish on these tracks are a bit much to take if you’re not used to them. For others, this is going to be a copious dirge ohm.

If you can stomach it, Suicide and the Rest of Your Kind Will Follow bears deeply-buried hints of The Top and Bloodflowers-eras Cure amidst the ghoulish strikes and gory wails ala Burzum. You have to dig for it, particularly on the brackish “His Veins Colored the Room,” but Wrath does have an appreciation for alt-laden atmospherics and thespian guitar tugs beneath his lupine-howled odium, which allows listeners to dip into his antagonism just a hair easier. As always with black metal, however, caution is strictly advised.