Deus Ignotus are a Greek duo (Reshep and Xolferoth) that released two demos at the end of last decade. In 2010 they also released some material on a split with French (defunct) act Abnorm, and a first ‘real’ record was their 2012-album Chrismation, released via the strong Forgotten Wisdom-label. And now the duo returns with a new EP, consisting of five tracks with duration of sixteen minutes.
Procession Of An Old Religion opens with an untitled intro, with spoken words taken from, well, I have no idea. It sounds like Pound, Crowley or LaVey, but whatever… Anyway, after this introduction, Deus Ignotus come with a skull-hammering form of Black / Death Metal, not really of the most technical kind, not coming with originality or superior craftsmanship, yet just doing what is needful: playing fierce, firm tunes of Blasphemy and Barbarism. The onslaught reminds me to the likes of Blasphemy, Impiety, Archgoat, Demoncy, Impaled Nazarene, Abomination or Black Witchery, which could have a satisfying result. Partly it does, for the performance is extremely satisfying. The compositions themselves, however, are pretty simplistic, and they do not really bring something additional that might this band being distinctive, in a positive way, from the bands I just compared them with. Also the lack of variation (the rhythms / tempo, for example, is way too same-sounded, if this word does exist) is a turn-off.