Gorgoroth: Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt - Black Metal Album Review

How cute. Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt is a glam rock album disguised as "evil black metal," with added drum frenzy to make you think you are getting the real trve kvlt metal experience when in fact you are getting a 1984 Motley Crue tape sped up and made a bit more wandering with Warkvlt, Absurd and modern Darkthrone riffs thrown in at random.

Welcome to black metal as a service (BMaaS), where bands like Gorgoroth compete soullessly to come up with new edgy takes on old Burzum riffs, mix in subgenres deftly (you can hear the nu-metal "chug chug" popularised by Limp Bizkit on "Satan-Prometheus"), and come up with something that sonically resembles black metal — a black metal shaped commercial object, a derivative product — so that people who are listening with half a brain get those old "kvlt" feelings again and throw feces at the screen while blaspheming like the world ended in 1994, and indulging in the same cargo cult make believe as a reddit neckbeard watching his life go past as he frantically strokes to male-on-male anime.

Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt is really just another form of "late metalcore style" black metal that imitates the genre from outside-in, resulting in a template like a subway map that goes in random directions to hide the absolute garbage within, pointlessly generating more landfill in the process of getting absolutely nowhere.

We call it "participation metal" because it means flogging the genre's aesthetic conventions while bringing nothing new besides more drama about the vocalist's questionable sexual proclivities. This is Gorgoroth at its finest hour... a pointless band, with nothing to say that hadn't been said already when they decided to come in and make themselves the new "face of black metal", a title given to them by a Vice Media pseudo-documentary, but widely rejected by actual black metal fans that saw Gorgoroth as try-hard posers from day one.

Tracklist of the album Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt (2009) by Gorgoroth:

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