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(review) Caedeous – ‘Malum Supllicium’

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Horror and metal go hand in hand so this combination fits perfectly to extreme metal genre. Portuguese Caedeous released their third opus revolving conceptually around horror, whether it is cosmic horror atmosphere in the vein of great H.P. Lovecraft, or more meaty body horror of Clive Barker or esotherica of Dante, this band delivers with their new opus. This one contains nine songs, one being intro using samples which I always condone and love. Music of Caedeous is a mixture between high energy death metal full of blast beats and growling death metal vocals sometimes mixing with black metal screams, technicality meeting brutality and also symphonic black metal where symphonic and keyboard passages with their eerie melodies add to the overall horror and murky darkened atmosphere of the record as a whole. I also love the use of melodic, clean female vocals in ‘Obscura Ascensions’. If I must choose some songs as highlights for me, that would be ‘Cruxis Inferni’, ‘Pandemonium’ and the title song. If you are looking for brutality with added horror and sympho passages this one is the right one for you.

8,5/10

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(news – new single/video) FINNISH BLACK DEATH METAL BAND ANIMA HERETICAE RELEASES NEW MUSIC VIDEO ‘CIMMERIAN DARKNESS’ ! 

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Photographer: Teppo Ristola Photography

After the 2021 debut EP “Ov Behest” Finnish blackened death metal band Anima Hereticae has been working on their first full length album to be released in Autumn 2023. The band’s unique sound is a combination of Scandinavian melodic metal, death metal with black metal elements. The music goes in symbiosis with the visuals, both in live shows and on videos. Now released music video Cimmerian Darkness presents a view to the upcoming debut album’s beauty and epicness.

‘Even though pretty much anything we do has the sense of darkness and despair, this song has also a hint of hope in it. Creating new music is quite therapeutic and healing experience for us. And so was the writing of this song – a meditative and self-reflecting process. Some times as wondering this world we live in it feels like we are living in Cimmerian darkness on the edge of the world.’ Ville Rutanen and Taneli Jämsä background the song.

The music video is directed by the Anima Hereticae drummer Teppo Ristola and as an actor there is Jussi Matilainen from Where’s My Bible.

Anima Hereticae is touring in Finland and Baltics this spring:
18.3. Maaliskuun Musta Messu @ Sammiosali, Lahti, Finland
6.4. Republika, Riga, Latvia
7.4. Narauti, Vilna, Liettua
8.4. Tapper Room, Tallinn, Estonia
9.4. Lepakkomies, Helsinki, Finland

Anima Hereticae:
Ville Rutanen – vocals & bass
Taneli Jämsä – guitar & backing vocals
Teppo Ristola – drums

https://www.facebook.com/animahereticaeofficial
https://www.animahereticae.com/
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https://animahereticae.bandcamp.com/

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(review) Pantheon – ‘Empire in Ruin’ (Necrotic records)

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Pantheon from Arkansas are relatively new band in the US extreme metal underground scene, this being their second full length opus. But members of Pantheon are in no way new to the scene playing or having played in Empyrean, Genocide Winter, Epoch of Unlight and many more. This one contains 9 songs. The music is that American school of death metal with lots of black metal and thrash metal influences, I can hear Slayer influence in awesome ‘Man-Infestation’. There are blast beats, blistering thrash death solos and brutal growled death metal vocals. But, there are also some epic melodies on this one like in my favorite Absence of Light with that great main guitar melody and this time vocals are black metal screeching not growling. With songs like heavy hitters ‘Death Is In The Air’ or ‘Eviscerate Desecrate Cremate’ there is no mercy, no holds barred blackened death thrash metal and I am really happy having discovered this band. Right on good record.

7/10