Countess Erzsebet is the creation of Rachel Bloodspell Moongoddess (USA). The project began in 2017, known as Erzsebet with the Black Spell release and Countess Erzsebet is not so much a debut as a release of a force of nature.
Malevolent, esoteric, draped in the alluring aura of the sinister and darkness, this is a total commitment to music and her craft. Rachel Moongoddess does not only play every instrument on the album (at times simultaneously) but also handcrafted the guitars and bass used on it! Countess Erzsebet is the ultimate expression of musical freedom and the extremes found within it.
‘’ Glorification of the Profane’’ and ‘’ “In the Blood of Virgins “are wildly free expressions of the self where the organic sounds meet the hallucinogenic and the primal fury of black metal.
Taking elements from the traditional of Coven through to Bathory, it is music inspired by those with no regard for the mainstream, where the music in its most primal form takes importance. It’s not perfect; it doesn’t need to be. It’s a thought, an emotion that lingers in the back of your mind akin to smoke that coalesces until you try to grasp it and it disappears only to reform in another guise malevolently. The bass throbs with a darkened heart while the guitar shrieks and wails in torment, a sacred ceremony of blood, fire, smoke, and passion.
Part soothing, part bloody nightmare Countess Erzsebet is a brief encounter that lingers long the voice a conjurer, seductive yet repellent.
A juxtaposition of opposite warm 70s tones that meet 90’s cold fury Countess Erzsebet is also completely original and undeniably compelling.
Countess Erzsebet: Facebook
Release Year: 2023
Label: self-released
Category: Album
Country: USA
Reviewed by Sparky
