Title: Per chi èla la nòcc
Genre: Black Metal
Time: 43.18 min
Release date: 9th October 2019
Vote: 88/100
Let me say this: Italian black metal reserves morbid surprises! Starting with my
beloved Progenie Terrestre Pura that experiment new frontiers of sound and ending with Fosch, a
band coming from the foggy lands of northern Italy, that redefines the narrative of this extreme
music genre. In their third work "Per chi èla la nòcc" (Vacula Productions, 2019), they sing in bergamasque dialect, and it is very
important because, by telling their dark tales filled with grim atmosphere and gloomy folky feeling,
like "Al calar del sul", these damned guys create a perfect bloody marriage between local tradition
and black metal. Concept is very important, reinforcing it is essential and create an effective and
original overview in this kind of music not for all and saturated with ideas, so this sounds like a victory!
In this way, it's easy plunging into the world of Fosch, feel the heartbeat of horror, the anguish, the concern and
see materializing the nightmarish creatures of Italic folklore and the legends passed on during cold
winter nights gathered around the fireplace.
Listening to the album, I remember again "Al calar del sul", with very suggestive recited part
accompanied with acoustic guitar, turning then into a chaotic sonic strike. "Crof" keeps the canon of
classic black metal with energic rhythmic changes, same speech for the second track. "Fellonch" is
very solid and goddamn essential using guitars and drums. "Per chi èla nòcc" has an explosive beginning,
it's a violent ritual that hurts the ears of who listen to it and we feel in the middle a doom like sound
that it's a premise to introduce the final crescendo were power feels again. Equally deflagrating is
the next song "Amise ndela eta, sorele ndela mort", that is a pure black metal song: nothing to envy
with northern Europe cousins! "La Procesiu di Morcc" is an hybrid between a dark ballad and a
clash of sonorities with death metal influences. "Fosch" and the ending track "Ròsen" are both
good executions that confirm the style.
Concluding this review: Italian black metal is alive, pulsates
of majestic restlessness and has a well defined morphology that have this album as an important
reference. Making a parallelism with literature: not only Anglo-Saxon authors have written good
ghost stories like LeFanu, Hodgson or Bierce but also a great Italian writer, Luigi Capuana, has
managed to scare us with novels about spectres. This is because macabre, horrorific, black stories,
magic and witchcraft run powerful under the skin of the Boot!
Tracklist:
1 - Al calar del sul
2 - Crof
3 - Fellonch
4 - Per chi èla nòcc
5 - Amise nde ela, sorele ndela mort
6 - La Procesiu di Morcc
7 - Fosch
8 - Ròsen
Line-up:
Ol Pier - vocals
Pagà - guitars
Gòt - guitars
Gangà - bass
Ol Mike - drums
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/foschbg
Vacula Productions: http://www.vacula.com.ua/
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