STURMGEIST

Black Metal • Norway
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Sturmgeist is a Norwegian band founded in the autumn of 2002 as a solo project by Cornelius von Jackhelln (Solefald). Meant to be a Thrash/Black outfit, Sturmgeist took a slightly electronic/industrial turn while recording the Meister Mephisto debut album (Season of Mist, 2005) in Sound Suite Studio, France. Meister Mephisto's direct expression and martial attitude went down well with the listeners and critics who got what they expected: grim hardcore Metal without detours or surprises. Producer Terje Refsnes once characterised Sturmgeist's music thus: Pop songs in Metal disguise. In February 2005, Sturmgeist played before cheerful crowds in Paris and London, turning the gig into a party by serving Jägermeister on stage.

After the tour, von Jackhelln recruited guitarist John E. Jacobsen as a full member of Sturmgeist. Much of Sturmgeist's second opus Über was written during von Jackhelln's stay in Rome, and completed during a devilishly hot week in Florence,
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STURMGEIST Meister Mephisto album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Meister Mephisto
Black Metal 2005
STURMGEIST Über album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Über
Black Metal 2006
STURMGEIST Manifesto Futurista album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Manifesto Futurista
Black Metal 2009

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STURMGEIST Meister Mephisto

Album · 2005 · Black Metal
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"Meister Mephisto" offers a listener an industrial strength dose of metal that succeeds in melding thrash and black metal influences. A bit more evil than Hanzel Und Gretyl and considerably more impacting than the latest Mortiis offering, Sturmgeist have a lot to offer those who enjoy the militant tonality of industrial music, yet crave the sheer chaos that black metal has to offer. An album which maintains a grim feel throughout its nine tracks, Cornelius von Jackhelln excels in crafting material that would make those pretty boys in Rammstein whimper in fright. If Rammstein are your cup of blood however, and you are partial to vocals delivered in Deutsch (at times) combined with ominous ambient overtones and crunching metal guitars, this is a record that you'll no doubt find to be very interesting.

"Erlkonig" is an anthemic statement that oozes with dark emotion, while "Shock and Awe" is a vehement attestment of the forces of war mongering. A chunky, galloping metallic riff ushers in "Army Of Odin", relaying von Jackhelln's Nordic influence, accented by pulasting keyboard accompaniments reminiscent of The Kovenant. The spacy, hollow tones which grace "Master Hunter" provide a bleak tone as von Jackhelln chants "Jagermeister" during the chorus.

Buzzing bass tones give this music a violent distorted feeling that is severely crushing on this, the showpiece of the album. "Rattenfanger" contains an enormous, howling refrain and an overallsound that resonates with sonic electricity. "Meister Mephisto" closes with a two part black symphony entitled "Walpurgisnacht" that is simply a wall of buzzing, voraciously amplified haterd that is as overpoweringly overwhelming as it is a celebration of exhilarative wickedness.

"Meister Mephisto" is nothing short of remarkable, as von Jackhelln has generated one hell of a bandersnatch of a metal album.

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