Jobie's Bite-Sized Music Reviews #35: All Bitches Die (album) - Lingua Ignota
- arrangednoisefan
- Jun 17, 2022
- 2 min read
Recommended
All Bitches Die is a 2017* album by singer Lingua Ignota. The album could fit into a wide array of genres, such as industrial and spiritual, so I will refrain from assigning the album any specific genres, like I usually do in the first paragraph of these reviews. The album's sound mostly consists of slow, piano melodies, with beautiful vocals sung by Lingua Ignota. However, the first five minutes of the album are most certainly some type of industrial/noise sound; the first track in the album, “Woe to All (On The Day of My Wrath)” spends the first five minutes of the album serving up screamed, spaced out vocals**, before shifting into the sound found on the rest of the album. Industrial/noise elements are also present in small doses on other tracks on the album, such as “For I Am the Light (and Mine is the only Way)”***. Perhaps the best and most emotional vocal delivery on the entire album comes on the final track, “Holy is the Name (Of My Ruthless Axe)”. Everything about Ignota's delivery is graceful – coupled with a beautiful instrumental, one can't help but get tearful (or at least get watery-eyed) whenever the final seconds of the song commence. Lyrically, the album's lyrics detail themes of domestic violence (“All Bitches Die Here”), and retribution against said domestic violence (“Holy is the Name (Of My Ruthless Axe)”. Bible verses and a few traditional gospel songs are either directly quoted or re-phrased to fit the message Ignota is trying to get across. For instance, in “For I Am the Light (and Mine is the only Way)”, she rephrases 1 Peter 3:9 (“Do not repay evil with evil...”), inverting it as “And I repay evil with evil”, which fits the themes of retribution found within the album. My favorites tracks from All Bitches Die are the tracks “God Gave Me No Name (no Thing Can Hide From My Flame)”, and “Holy is the Name (Of My Ruthless Axe)”. Overall, All Bitches Die is a great, beautiful album from Lingua Ignota. With hints of industrial/noise, and beautiful piano melodies, coupled with Ignota's excellent vocal delivery, this album, as well as Ignota herself, has a distinctive sound that sets her and the album apart from other artists.
*The version listened to for this review was the 2018 Profound Lore re-release, which is the same save for an extra track added to the album.
**Admittedly, these vocals are fairly abrasive and can be hard to sit through, but it is well worth the wait due to how beautiful the rest of this album is.
***The track “For I Am the Light (and Mine is the only Way)” is also worth pointing out due to how “cinematic” it sounds; that is, the instrumental keeps this soundtrackesque, dramatic feel throughout the track (coupled with the aforementioned sprinkles of industrial/noise).
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