End Of All Life And Creation (Excesor Christianorum Records)

Finally this first full length of this unholy trio came to my hands! Having being impressed by the band’s firsts two demos, “Pandemonic Holocaust” and “Ancient Apocalypse” I was quite anxious to hear this brand new blasphemous piece of Metal, and now I’ve play this record, about five times a day for almost four days in a row, let me tell you there was no was no disappointment here. “End Of All Life And Creation” is, as the title explicitly implies, an obscure piece of pure, sorrowful and slaughtering Black Metal played in the way it should. This album shows a slight and logic progression from its predecessor (there’s still nothing here but pure traditional Black Metal), but this time the band seems to have detached slightly its sound from their influences, you will still find here the direct influences of bands such Darkthrone (principally), Mayhem and Burzum, but this album more than sounding like a clone of any of the mentioned bands, sounds, as I’ve mentioned above, like the natural progression of “Ancient Apocalypse”, that is to say, grim mid to fast paced Black Metal with some mournful atmospheres created by the sharpened guitar melodies, complemented by some disturbingly calm interludes (such the entire “When the Fog Veils...” track). This work also has an interesting and violently epic aura surrounding the fastest passages of the album, which contrast with the slower and sombre parts… all these blended by the infernal vocalizations of Chaosforos, who maintain the crude and possessed tone trademarked in the band’s previous efforts. Even when this album moves completely into the well-known Traditional Black Metal parameters, there’re some interesting and pretty “original” structures here, with several tempo changes and quite complex movements (for a Black Metal release), all these improved by the strong sounding production. If you enjoyed “Pandemonic Holocaust” and “Ancient Apocalypse” you will certainly enjoy “End Of All Life And Creation”, a strong piece of hi-fi blasphemous Black Metal at its best! (AP)