Summoning - Lugburz

Summoning’s first album and my personal favorite. Before they totally disappeared up Tolkein’s rectum. I totally love their later albums as well, I eat that keyboard slop up, it’s just on Lugburz they had that little something extra, that little extra “sting”…a drummer named Trifixion! As y’all may have gleaned from the Pervertum post from awhile back (waaay awhile back), I have quite the crush of Mr. Horned Godz percussionary skillz. Underneath that pasty white corpsepainted exterior beats a heavy funky soul. It’s hard to put a pin in just how awesome his performance is, but I’ll give it a go: Billy Cobham mixed with a drunk Flo Mournier…Nicko McBrain trying to out paradiddle Abath circa Battles In The North…or maybe even Atheist's Steve Flyn gone a LARP-ing….the only thing he’s missing is a vibraslap. So just try and wrap your head around all of that!! Hey this is even better than Lost Tales Upon A Viking Stallion, those riffs are crazy. It may have been a uniquely Austrian black metal thing, but these major-key medieval melodies are just killer and bands like Summoning and Abigor had them in spades. 

Lugburz

Pervertum - Creature of Ungod

Alright, time for the first Trifixion post.  It had to happen sooner or later so I guess now is as good a time as any.  This dude is notorious as far as I'm concerned, not only for being the John Lennon of Austrian Black metal, but for being one ferocious beast on the skins.  Trifixion of the Horned God, one time drummer for Tolkein metal band Summoning, formed Pervertum after his forced departure from said band.  Why they kicked him out I do not know, although its been said he had an ego as big as this horse he rode in on, and after this album he rode off on his horse, never to be seen again.

Honestly, I don't know why I make a fuss over this guy.  His drumming is pretty great and quirky but there are much better metal drummers in the grand scheme of things.  I think its the mystery behind him, the unknown.  If he ever does come back down to Earth, I know that his horse will be waiting for him, and together they'll kick ass, take names, and ride off into the sunset.

Creature of Ungod