Revenant Marquis – Anti Universal Compassion (2019)

July 22, 2024

I’m all for raw black metal, but some of the other Revenant Marquis records are so impenetrable it is nigh on impossible to get any real enjoyment out of them. Anti Universal Compassion on the other hand, stands out from the other subterranean offerings from this mysterious project to offer something far more enjoyable and unique. Yes, the record is buried in a thousand layers of dust and cobwebs, emerging from some forgotten basement like a dense and penetrating miasma, but it is the use of melody in the guitar and the inclusion of longer atmospheric passages here that utilise the obscuring fog all the better. Truly, this one sounds like something not of this world.