Heretic Cult Redeemer are not such a well-known entity yet, but the band consists of members that are or were involved with huge names, at least within ‘my genre’, like Embrace Of Thorns, Necrovorous or Acrimonious. This Greek act was formed in 2009 with the intention to bring another message of ancient Cult; indeed, courtesy of Greece, I guess??? (do I need to add a smiley right now?)…
The band debuts with a nameless (or is it ‘self-called’) vinyl release, which has a total running time of forty six minutes. It deals with a specific ideology, comparing materialism and spirituality, with conscious and knowledge as basic essence. It’s about sinning, it’s about the number ‘seven’ prevailing Life, it’s about macro-cosmos and introspection. Or: it’s Greek indeed…
What Heretic Cult Redeemer bring is an energetic, slightly militaristic (but no fascistic ideology!) and rhythmic form of timeless Black-laden Metal, with some subtle hints of both Death and Thrash Metal. The songs are mainly fast, yet all of them include several breaks and tempo-changes, sometimes decelerating the whole into doomish spheres of Obscurity. The approach is pretty orthodox (for a Greek act, I am allowed to label this stuff that way, I guess…) – read: traditionally inspired – and it makes the whole sound rather evident. I do not use the word ‘common’ for the individual compositions are of a very high quality, and ‘being common’ would be an insult in this case. Yet again, though, Heretic Cult Redeemer isn’t really renewing. It comes with a traditional performance, rather safe and clean, and so is the production: not of the virginally-clinical kind, but properly mixed + getting rid of any dissonance or discordance (read: decent). However, the whole (sound and performance) maintains a specific yet undeniable Underground-approach (did I mention the typifying Greek sound already?).