001teeth “…from the Eternal Chaos” CD
Pogost - is it a churchyard around a church? Pogost – is the churchyard for the bodies of the christians, this is their final abode where they shall decay and putrefy in complete unanimity with each other and in conformity with their defective canons, they all shall be in the ground.
Pogost is the churchyard around the church. Razed to the ground, burnt down, and covered with ashes of biblical stories. Pogost is dark desires, unleashed… This is the desire to destroy the world and everything connected with it. Hail everyone with us!
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Tracklist:

I. Silentium
II. Sense of Truth
III. Misanthrope
IV. I’m Dying
V. The Truth
VI. Children of the Grave
VII. The Punishment of the Earth
VIII. The Dark
IX. Warriors of Pure Hate
X. Dead jesus

Recorded at Trotyl Studioz (Cheljabinsk/Mighty Ural), Novembre 2007.

Sarmat - bass/vokalz
Askold - guitarz
Apostol - drumz

(c) 2008 The HOWL Release
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POGOST
…From The Eternal Chaos
Take a good look at the tracklist of “…From The Eternal Chaos”, and see if you can guess how the music sounds. To my big surprise, POGOST doesn’t play bubblegum pop, nor old school hip hop, not even with a dash of acid trance! “What on earth could they be playing then?”, I hear you exclaim in bewilderment. Well, this might come as a shock, but the mavericks behind songtitles like “The Dark” and “Dead Jesus” aren’t the mild-mannered Christians you might think. Alright, that’s enough half-witted sarcasm for one review, this is plain raw and ugly Black Metal from Russia.
It’s always difficult to adequately describe an album that really doesn’t have anything in particular to set it apart from other bands. Lo-fi riffs, blasting drums, sinister growls, and a cold atmosphere doesn’t narrow it down much in the monotonous realm of mid-paced Black Metal. POGOST aren’t a shit band, but this particular brand of Black Metal is so ridiculously overdone that it really takes more than a few decent songs to make it worth your time. Unfortunately this means that “…From The Eternal Chaos” leaves me numb and disinterested after every listen, repeatedly failing to really draw me in. The acoustic instrumental “Children Of The Grave” (unrelated to the BLACK SABBATH song) is an interesting diversion, but acoustic interludes are also quickly becoming a trite commodity.
Thus, the bottom line is that while “…From The Eternal Chaos” isn’t terrible as far as raw Black Metal goes, it’s still painfully generic and ultimately boring. This one will surely be quickly shelved and forgotten by most listeners, so I really don’t see any need to bother with it.
METAL OBSERVER 3,5/10 (Online May 10, 2009)
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POGOST - From the Eternal Chaos (The Howl)
One can always depend on Eastern Europe and the former member states of the Soviet Union, generally, for some of the nastiest and cruelest works of primitive metal in today’s world, and Pogost certainly deliver the goods on that count.  A guitar tone so raw lives in the bits of this disc that it seems to peel the very skin from your inner ears - but, for all that, for all that the production and what we would refer to as the “style” itself brings, there is the little, quite annoying factor of conventionality to take into consideration when reviewing this album, and Pogost, despite their sound and all of their good (read: evil) intentions, are not doing anything remarkably stimulating in contrast to the hundreds of other bands with similar aims as them.  What one finds most interesting about Pogost, rather, is the fact that they come from Russia, sing in the Russian language, and apparently - this is the central part of it - have no regard whatsoever for the developments that have occurred among black metal bands in at least the last ten years.  Those bring about high points, to be sure, from an unabashed purist like myself who still mourns for the passing of the 1990s, but in themselves, it is not quite enough, as the riffs, though threatening and raw as forces in themselves, lack a certain depth and character at length that I feel is sorely needed in order to make this album properly eliminate the Christians they attack, and the vocals and drums are well-done, but hardly spectacular.  However, the ten tracks of …From The Eternal Chaos are, in relation to many others on the same page, above average, carrying forward an ineluctable character and sheer fucking nastiness that I believe the underground these days needs more of.  The synthetic and over-produced, compressed and digitized tripe on the major and many not-so-major labels this most certainly is not.  Pogost eats those bands for breakfast each morning, with a side of nails dipped in battery acid, which means, in short, that it is frightening, but predictable, which in turn means that it is too safe to get too worried before checking below the bed at night.
CONVIVIAL HERMIT Mag.
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POGOST - …From The Eternal Chaos
Aus Russland kommt unser heutiges Schwarzstahlkommando, um den Leichnam des Nazareners auch im Rest der Welt zu schanden, oder sowas ahnliches.
Es kommt wirklich selten vor, aber manchmal sind die Beschreibungen, die Bands sich selbst oder Labels ihren Bands verpassen auch mal zutreffend, aber bei Pogost ist das einfach der Fall, doch vorab ein bisschen was zur Geschichte des Todestrios.
Das russische Trio Pogost wurde 2002 gegrundet und hat seit dem keinerlei Line-Up Veranderungen zu verzeichnen. Seit dem Jahre 2004 haben die Drei zwei Demos, eine Split und ein Live Album herausgebracht und nun halte ich mit “…From The Eternal Chaos” das 2008er Debut-Album, erschienen auf Assault Records, in den Handen. Wie eingangs schon erwahnt, kommt es selten vor, dass die Werbetexte, die das neuste Werk einer Band anpreisen sollen, der Wahrheit entsprechen, aber bei “…From The Eternal Chaos” ist dies einfach Fakt.
Die 1. und 2. Wellen Einflusse, derer die Band front, sind klar und eindeutig zu horen und auch die Angabe, dass es sich bei Pogost weder um grosse Philosophen, was die Texte angeht, noch um die absoluten Techniker in der Musik handelt, ist eher eine Untertreibung.
“…From The Eternal Chaos” ist ein einfaches Album, schon handlich und leicht zu horen, aber dennoch nicht langweilig. Geboten wird herrlich primitiver, roher Black Metal, im Mid- bis Up-Tempo Bereich, der besonders in den Wechseln von Mid- auf Up-Tempo zu glanzen weiss. Sagende Gitarrenarbeit vermischt sich mit zornentbranntem Schlagwerk, einem boshaften Bassgewitter und erbarmungslosem Krachz-Gesang zu einer Kakophonie ursprunglichen Zornes, wie ich sie gerne habe.
Hervorheben mochte ich im ubrigen noch die Arbeit des Herren Sarmat, der sich neben dem Gesang auch noch fur den Bassbereich zustandig zeigt. Obwohl es fur diese Form von Schwarzstahl eher unublich ist, scheut er sich doch nicht auch einfach mal mit dem Bass in den Vordergrund zu treten und geschickt Akzente zu setzen oder das klangliche Geschehen gar vollig zu dominieren, ein interessantes Extra, welches zum Gluck nicht bis zur Ausgelutschtheit ausgenutzt wird.
Alles in allem bieten Pogost mit ihrem Debut ein rundum zufriedenstellendes Geschoss schwarzmetallischer Klangkunst der primitiven Sorte. Wer gerne mal in diese Richtung die Ohren spitzt, schuldet es sich selbst, “…From The Eternal Chaos” zumindest mal ein Ohr zu widmen, wenn nicht gar zwei.
Punkte: 9/13
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