French (and Finnish, Japanse, etc.) avant black metal group Deathspell Omega's fifth full-length Paracletus is their most rabid -- 49 minutes of layered, technical, violent black metal. It opens in media res, closes on a quick cut/distorted fade. It also fittingly features a song called "Abscission": Excise the choirs, clip the ambient breaks, remove silence by creating coils. They've re-focused ...