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Some releases are very obscure, but their design offers glimpses of the attitude the band has towards the metal scene and commercialism. One of those "I do not give a fuck" groupings would be Cumming Jehovah. The inlay has a hand-drawn cover, offers as little information on the band as possible/necessary and the inverted cross is also not missing of course; what would a black metal demo be without this symbol?

As primitive as the visual art is also the audible one. Some bands really want to prove to the world how "much" complexity is required in order to create handmade music; electronic genres like drone are even less complex of course. Anyway, Cumming Jehova's music is very primitive and repetitive black metal and a statement on the homepage of the band's site project Holocaust fits for both bands:

Holocaust is a rehearsal band and will never record a studio "professional" album/demo.

Accordingly is the sound very thin, hardly balanced, offers very repetitive played and minimalist composed motives; like expected. Furthermore does the length of the tracks give some hints what kind of music is played by this band: five tracks with a total length of around 13:30 minutes; this might vary slightly due to the way the tape has been ripped. In less than three minutes it is not possible to write some epic music with a chorus/rhyme scheme and not surprisingly is the music of Cumming Jehovah very linear in its style. One idea follows another one and all of them are arranged in a somehow weird fashion. Even though some decent ideas are played now and then, the overall quality of this tape is ... well... not really good. This has nothing to do with the dominant (and annoying) pondering of the bass-drum, rather is it due to the way the riffs had been arranged and written. The legendary Zarach 'Baal' Tharagh level is not reached though, because the production makes the music at least endurable respectively listenable, but in terms of the quality of the motives, there is not much difference between both bands. Cumming Jehovah has some structure in their music, though, but not in the sense that a listener would be able to follow it. Rather put than neatly woven together are the riffs in the five fast played tracks.

Well, underground fans might enjoy this demo, but the majority of the black metal scene would rather ridicule this band. Even ten years ago this band would not have been able to gain some broader attention to their art. Perhaps in the early days of the scene, this kind of music might have been perceived as unique and interesting, but these times have passed by. It is better than a lot of crap that is signed and released by countless labels these days, but beyond the somehow historical factor and the "fucked up" attitude, not much has this release to offer. 40 points for ... something... whatever.