You know, there are no bad stories -- only bad storytellers. The same applies to this album. For the better part of an hour, SUFFERING SOULS, delivering what can only be described as masterworks of musical inarticulacy, painstakingly retell the contents of "Enthrone Darkness Triumphant" (you know whose creation that is) to us fools... Idiotic? Idiotic! And on top of that, it's pure, unadulterated boredom!.. It feels like the keyboardist is playing with his nose -- this self-proclaimed "Bach's" "fugue" somehow resembles the infamous melody from "Digger" more than anything else. The guitarist needs constant reminding that the band is, in fact, cranking out blasphemous black metal, because the guy has clearly been binging on the latest STRATOVARIUS... The musical absurdities multiply, sometimes reaching peak idiocy. For instance, during "Punishment From Hell" everyone rolls on the floor clutching their sides -- you can't help but recall the group FORSTH, who smoked up the room with their "black" legacy, heh-heh. To quote the classic: "The Monkey, the Donkey, the Goat, and the clumsy Bear set out to play a Quartet..." I'll say nothing about the musical value of this opus. The cover art, though, is superb...
