Despite a ‘career’ of (apparently) more than seven years, Greek act Septuagint (in the beginning known as Declaration: Holocaust) now, finally, debut with the five-tracker Negative Void Trinity, having duration of twenty three minutes. The stuff deals, lyrically, with biblical themes (once again; Greece is, amongst so many other countries, submissive, even subservient to the naïve semi-Christian ‘truth’, but that is another discussion I do not want to launch right now, right here; another time, another opportunity would be fine, please! - defy me).
Anyway, with Negative Void Trinity, Septuagint perform a slightly disharmonic-sounding and Post-influenced form of traditional and orthodox Black Metal. The speed is mainly fast and the riffs energetic, with inclusion of some slower passages too. The melodic tremolo riffing and the sometimes blasting rhythm section go well together, and more than once Nightbringer and the likes come to mind. It is like the dissonance of Deathspell Omega in unholy marriage with the obscurity of Aosoth, including a hidden affair with Acherontas’ post-apocalyptic grimness. Sounds tasty, not?... There might be some details that could / should be improved, but overall I am positively surprised by this EP. I divinely hope to have the honour to listen to, and possibly review, an upcoming full length very soon (or another EP would do too, of course; as long as the new material goes on in the very same way; just with a corrected production???...).