Fuck the Universe [Re-Issue] [4/26]

Do you live your life in God's filth? This and other unhygienic questions are posed at blistering volume by the Swedish black metal band Craft on its third full-length release. Single-syllabled vocalist Nox seems in imminent danger of shredding his vocal cords throughout songs like the album's physics-defying title track and the short-but-sweet "At the Suffering of Others." But though Nox never quite produces the genre's hallowed cookie-monster vocal effect--which leaves him in mortal danger of accusations of inauthenticity from metal zealots--Craft's grinding riffs and monolithic arrangements amply convey the band's message of universal loathing and destruction. Rest assured--they hate us, every one.