This album combines the dynamics of black metal with an Incantation/Asphyx/Immolation approach that brings lots of tasty surging riffs while at the same time building songs out of the conflict of these riffs, making for an album that is inscrutable to 90% of the listening audience at this time.
There are nods with the use of epic melody toward bands like Grandeur and Solitvdo, who develop a kind of martial music out of the basic whole-half step mythic sound of death metal, but the basics of this band are grinding, insurgent, and naturalistic riffs that oppose categorization.
What makes this band work is that (a) the riffs fit together and (b) they organize toward some atmosphere, theme, or sensation behind each track. This creates an immersive experience in which one can get lost, forgetting the world of diesel exhaust and OnlyFans for a half hour of sonic bliss.
Tags: death metal, tenebro
This is actually good enough to download – four point five salmon pizza’s out of five. The key for Italians to get away with criminal shit like this is just be awesome like the Lasombra clan and that Christopher Walken scene where he one-shotted Frank Booth… as the AntiChrist… I mean, Dennis Hopper, from True Romance 1993, and let me reiterate that these modern Italian classics must also not be ignored:
Fourth Monarchy – Amphilochia
Veneror – percussimus foedus cum morte (there is cum in death! Death the ultimate orgasm of life – Jon Nodtveidt)
Infamous – Of Solitude and Silence (Emo as fuck, but in a good way)
Fourth Monarchy and Infamous seemed like a revelation at some point, but they have dissappeared from playlist at least. Thanks for your input Italy nonetheless!
More from Italy:
Maleficarum – Across the Heavens
Necromass – Abyss Calls Life
Remasters are out there.
Population control
Even on my mind after fucking jlo and like hundreds of black Hawaiian Puerto Rican Satanism death metal hip hop brides hahaha
Fuck white rap rocker trash too die necro…
Hey Brett can rap death metal mix I think not…
You’re right: they cannot. At the very least, it is a terrible idea. However the thing that is on my mind today is that all modern melodies sound the same: emo + gospel + country + Pantera. The genres are different only in the rhythm and production settings in GarbageBand.
“Effigy of the Forgotten” was a good merging of rap and death metal. Even the DLA mentions the hip-hop influences on that one!
How is the metal book coming along? I’m still waiting.
Will take a look, I’m following the band. I might not like too much their output but their “Liberaci Dal Male” was SOOOO GOOOOD.
This is just a 2004 Razorback Records release but in 2025, it’s alright like most of that stuff was.