Finally! I have always been ‘into’ Inferno’s Black Metal (the one from the Czech Republic), and the last effort this act did, called Black Devotion, was released in 2009; indeed, it took way too long! Shame on you, guys! But since I am a big boy, I did not cry (yet), for I was ignorantly craving for more… And now there is more to come!
Adramelech (v), Ska-Gul (g) and Sarapis (d) recorded this newest (sixth) album at the magisterial Swedish Necromorbus Studio (production, mastering, engineering and mix) with Tore Stjerna (too many interesting bands to sum up, so please visit the wwweb and bla…). The six tracks last for forty eight minutes and were recorded with session bass assistance done by Besatt’s Beldaroh.
The album opens with an atmospheric intro (Pervasion), but that’s of no importance for it is not the most enthralling intro for a Black Metal recording. However, as from The Firstborn Of Murk, Inferno do what they have to do: performing occult, mystic, haunting and grim Underground Black Metal in a mostly Second Wave-oriented tradition. This act has always been able to perfectly combine melody with intensity, oppression with explosion, and minimalism with expression, and with Omniabsence … they do not change their direction. And what’s more, the album sounds more varied and omni-present (no omni-absence right here!) than ever before. The tempo, for example, still dwells in between ultra-fast and doomish passages, but the latter, the slower parts, are more on the foreground this time. This gives the whole a very intense and asphyxiating necrotic, funereal and haunting atmosphere; read: psychopathic / psychotropic / psychedelic (yet not of the mushroom-kind). And with tracks like Revelations Through The Void or The Heretical Fissure Of The Most Distant End, Inferno even touches, softly and gently, the pseudo-cosmic existentialism of the surreal symbiosis dissonance - nihilism.
Very kindly recommended if you can appreciate the likes of Blut Aus Nord, Aosoth, Moon, Merrimack or Ondskapt.