IMHA TARIKAT · Kara Ihlas | CD

Jewelcase CD.

Background information about 'Kara Ihlas'

Holy hell, what a debut! Imha Tarikat absolutely crushed it with "Kara Ihlas" - and man, this thing hits like a sledgehammer to the soul. This is an album that ties together the darker and more aggressive side of black metal with a much more grandiose and expansive sound, giving us an early contender for black metal record of the year. The German-Turkish duo crafted something that's both clean, precise and layered with complexity but still retains traces of the degenerative take on Motörhead that informed the early days of black metal. From the opener "Çökmüş Mühür (The Broken Seal)" which is an incredibly fierce track, which is a brilliantly raw and chaotic song from start to finish. This is a solid slab of caustic black metal with an underlying punk influence, most notably in the guitars, which range from dizzying speeds and visceral riffs to thick, crusty power chords.

What makes this record special isn't just the ferocity - it's the way Imha Tarikat weaves spiritual themes throughout these eight hymns. The band's full-length debut 'Kara Ihlas', which can be translated as the 'black purity', drawns its influences from the Quran and a prayer to crave for salvation and mercy of the dead souls. The album's structured in paired tracks that flow seamlessly, with a definite grandiosity that underpins the music, making everything sound vast and expansive, and ultimately making the song sounds unbelievably huge. The title track itself picks up this thread, and blends the more bombastic, reserved side of IMHA TARIKAT's sound and their more potent and dissonant one. It's got the perfect mix of frenzied, speed driven black metal and a vast, primal intensity which does an amazing job of making this one of the stand out tracks on the record.

For fans of:
Mgła, Blaze of Perdition, Batushka, and Deathspell Omega

Track listing

1. I-I: Çökmüş Mühür (The Broken Seal)
2. I-II: Akan Sır (The Flowing Wisdom)
3. II-I: Omninihai Çözümü (Omni-Final Solution)
4. II-II: Katarsis Vaazı (Catharsis Sermon)
5. III-I: Şafaksıs Rüya (Dawnless Dream)
6. III-II: Kara Ihlas (Black Purity)
7. III-III: Imha Tarikatı (Sect Of Destruction)
8. IV: Son Mistisizm (The Last Mysticism)

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