After being shot at several times and being deafened by heavy grenade impact, you crawl to safety through filth and mud. While your legs and torso are bleeding severely, noise slowly finds its way back into your ears.
This is somewhat how Surrender Of Divinity sounds: simple raw black metal, filthy and distorted and supported by metallic toy drums, music sounding cold and incomplete. Several catchy riffs make the album somewhat interesting, but overall it’s quite boring. The music is very repetitive and unoriginal. There are worse bands though, musically the band floats somewhere in the black metal mainstream. The endless (four and a half minute) part of silence between the fore-last and last song is very annoying.

As a nice extra, a bonus video is added with a playing time of 7:05. This is a video of the song “Immolating the Son of the Whore” (from their 2003 7” EP) played live at the “God Beheading live Ritual”.

This event took place the 25th of December 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand.

The unholy black metal band Surrender Of Divinity is active since 1996. They crawled from Thailand (Bangkok), a place far from the usual black metal battlegrounds. Besides the two current full lengths, being “Oriental Hell Rhythmics” (2001) and this album, they’ve released several demos, an EP and some splits. The current line-up is Whathayakorn (guitars), Avaejee (bass, vocals) and Xulaynus (drums). Avaejee is credited for the vocals on this album, replacing the former screamer Ekaluxx (Avaejee did already play bass guitar on the last album). Xulaynus is also new, taking the drumming seat of Paritat.

In short: There are loads of raw black metal bands like Surrender of Divinity. Suitable as background noise, but not for intense listening or to create extremely aggressive and hateful feelings.