"Mythology" and "Memories of an Extinct Race" both delve deep into the romantic diffusion and foggy yearning found in the Les Legions Noire material while embracing a caustic sort of avant-ism that I can only think of as "garage progressive." Some of the riffs found throughout "Raw to the Rapine" are brilliant, exploring areas modern and classical black metal both have left in the darkness. The shrapnel discordance of "Origins" gives way to the beautifully obtuse melody of "Prehistoric Silence," referencing both the primal aggression of Darkthrone as well as the harmonic complexity of early Mutiilation. While the album at first comes across as raw and borderline improvisational, multiple listenings reveal how intricately structured and conceptualized the material truly is. Tukaaria obviously grasp the ideology of intensity and harness it to hammering effect across these twelve tracks, and the subtle differences in approach across them render the record almost psychedelic in its expanse. These variances create a weird distance and disturbance alongside the equally angular music the chaos seems controlled but willing to come unhinged at any moment. The vocals are varied: sometimes a frustrated, yearning howl from the void, sometimes a grunting bark closer to the coughing extremism of death metal, sometimes clean and deadpan. Guitars are bathed in reverb (much like Volahn), giving the multiple lead lines a scathing sort of presence in the mix, furiously tumbling along with the frenzied battery of muffled drums. Dissonance and oblique melodicism are in abundance across "Raw to the Rapine," a crushing onslaught of anti-cosmic black metal usurpuration that absolutely shreds. Though the recording quality differs between the three (all the material here boasts a fantastic remaster by Colin Marston), the overall sound is completely individualized as defined by the Twilight Black Circle template. "Raw to the Rapine" is a compilation of the titular six-song full length originally released on Rhinocervs along with material from split releases with Volahn and Odz Manouk. "Raw to the Rapine" and "Odz Manouk" are the first two records to receive this deluxe treatment, and serve as a fine introduction to the TBC's archaic and mystical black metal art. Profound Lore has embarked on what is hopefully a thorough reissue campaign of the TBC material, in lovingly remastered and repackaged editions.
The TBC releases are severely limited (though often repressed), difficult to come by, and represent some of the more obscure black metal currently manifesting in the US scene.
Centered around the now defunct Klaxon label (helmed by Bone Awl) and the currently operational Crepusculo Negro, the Twilight Black Circle takes its inspiration and a goodly part of its aestheticism from France's Les Legions Noire, the infamous black metal collective consisting of Vlad Tepes, Mutiilation, Torgeist, Belketre, Brenoritvrezorkre, etc. Tukaaria and Odz Manouk are both part of Southern California's black metal collective the Twilight Black Circle, which also includes Ashdautus, Volahn, Arizmenda, Kallathon, Blue Hummingbird on the Left, Absum, and a host of others.
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