Artist: Black Cum
Country: Finland
Label: Unpure Records
Formats: Cassette Tape
Year: 2025
Usually, when Unpure Records hits the market with a new release, you know you have to fasten your seatbelts. Not necessarily because of the speedy music of their releases, but even more so because the majority of the bands on the Unpure Records roster are either far from conventional or just savage as phuck. Black Cum, from Finland, clearly is both. This project, run by Behemoth of Aske, Cursed Penetrator, Necro Ritus, Kurnugia and a few more, is definitely not for the faint of heart. In case you’re into later Abruptum, you can proceed reading…
None of Behemoth’s bands and projects are easy to find in your local record store and presumably none of them would appeal to the average Black Metal fan at the Wacken Open Air festival. But, if you care to get your hands dirty and dig deep into the foulest of gutters of the Black Metal genre, you might just enjoy a bit of Black Cum as well.
‘Black.Cum.Noise’ is a compilation that brings together some tracks recorded over three different sessions and were never released separately before. Well, at least as far as I was able to find out; hitting google with “Black Cum” gives you funny results, I can tell you that. However, that the tracks have different origins result in this collection having a slightly incoherent character, but for some reason that adds to the overall experience of the tape – which, by the way, only appears in a small run of 30 copies. Some tracks are slightly more Black Metal oriented, but as a whole, ‘Black.Cum.Noise’ seems to primarily focussing on terrifying soundscapes, regardless of how you’d label it. There’s enough of ritualistic Dark Ambient, (Black)Noise, Power Electronics, some Drone and Black Metal in here to frighten and chase off anyone who has no business here anyway. This piece of anti-music has the most in common with Abruptum, maybe not so much with their “classics”, but even more so with records like ‘Vi Sonus Veris Nigrae Malitiaes’ (1996) and ‘Casus Luciferi’ (2004). With the only difference that Black Cum also brings you the occasional, more or less, traditional Black Metal parts. So, are you up for it?
