JOHANN WOLFGANG POZOJ — Birth of Pozoj (Trilogy Part 1) (review)

JOHANN WOLFGANG POZOJ — Birth of Pozoj (Trilogy Part 1) album cover Album · 2011 · Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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“The Birth of Pozoj” was Johan Wolfgang Pozoj’s first album that the band released in 2007. The most recently they released another album titled the same way and featuring two songs from the earlier album: “Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes” and “Queen Emeraldas”. The only difference is that is was totally re-worked and re-recorded, so it was basically a completely different album.

Since this album only has two songs many people would believe that it would be relatively short. If I were to tell them it’s longer than a 10 track album they would think me insane, right? Well it is. Featuring a 20 minute song and a 30 some minute song, this album is almost an hour long! Originally the band had 5 songs on the first release but cut it down to two, and I quite like that since I don’t know if I want to sit through almost two hours of atmospheric black metal. Now onto what people actually want to know about, the music.

“The Birth of Pozoj” is a completely atmospheric black metal album which features great playing and wonderful dark passages. “Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes” is a great song, and has very good flow to it. Starting off slow and deep it eventually builds and builds to a monster of a song. You can really tell the almost avant-garde approach to this album in this song especially, and sometimes the conflicting time signatures are really cool. When the growls come in there is a nice change in the music and the guitar riffs become shorter and more prevalent. The growls are exceptional, especially mixed with Marko Balaban and Filip Fabek’s guitar playing. The end of “Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes” is probably my favorite part of the album because of its dark and rich guitar riffs.

The last song, “Queen Emeraldas” starts off much more upbeat but soon transfers back into the dark tones that ended the first song. The growls on this song are also very well preformed by Ivan Borcic. The production of this album isn’t really polished, but at the same time it isn’t that raw style that some may expect from black metal.

“The Birth of Pozoj” is a wonderful album that any fan of Burzum, or older black metal will enjoy thoroughly. Featuring great guitar playing, and very good growls Johan Wolfgang Pozoj have definitely found their way to the top of black metal with this release which gets 3.5 stars from me.
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