Crurifragium - "Beasts of the Temple of Satan" (Invictus Productions, 2017)

Band: Crurifragium
Title: Beasts of the Temple of Satan
Genre: Bestial Black/Death metal
Year: 30th January 2017
Time: 31 min
Rating: 89/100













Total devastation. Uncontrollable chaos and fury. The Planet Earth attacked mercilessly by the colossal hordes of Satan for the ultimate desolation. I think that these are the feelings that has necessarily provoke every bestial black/death metal album, conceiving the ears of the listeners as something to torture. And these are just the feelings that I feel every time I listen to "Beasts of the Temple of Satan" of Crurifragium from Seattle, Washington (USA). For the truth, this debut album is the sacrilegious coronation of a band once known as Warpvomit, the old moniker with which they release only a demo then reissued in a compilation disseminated by Iron Bonehead Productions in 2016 and titled "Barbaric Triumph of Evil". If all this isn't enough, there is need to say that some members of Crurifragium plays also in Demoncy, an historic US black metal band, and this is a very good curriculum yet. Now stop with the introductions and see what Crurifragium. have to offers to us with this album released by the Irish label Invictus Productions.

INTERVIEW TO REVERBER!!!

I must admit that the interviews are my favorite part of this job, though they are very few into this 'zine also if I have the precise target to publish, at least, one interview per month. Anyway, I adore this part because, in this ways, the bands have the chance to say something about them and their productions with the fantastic result to unveil some curiosities, especially in the case of very loquacious musicians. As in the case of the Praetorians Reverber, reviewed by me during the early days of 2017. So, enjoy the following interview and THRASH 'TILL DEATH!!!

Insulters - "Metal Still Means Danger" (Unholy Prophecies, 2017)

Band: Insulters
Title: Metal Still Means Danger
Genre: Black/Thrash metal
Year: 1st January 2017
Time: 38 min
Rating: 75/100













"Metal Still Means Danger": the true metal has always been a danger and it has always frightened the so-called common people, especially since a pack of Norwegians (any resemblance to persons living or deceased is.. "purely coincidental"!) started to burn some churches during the early '90s' years. An annoying problem is that, ultimately, you can find the t-shirts of some mainstream metal bands like Megadeth or Metallica into some ultra-commercial stores of my city, and maybe the regular people buy these items without they knows really something about those bands. Fortunately, the metal like it is really with his hostile and non-commercial purposes is clearly expressed into skullbreaking albums like "Metal Still Means Danger"!

Goatblood - "Veneration of Armageddon" (Dunkelheit Produktionen, 2016)

Band: Goatblood
Title: Veneration of Armageddon
Genre: Bestial Black/Death Metal with Grindcore influences
Year: 25th December 2016
Time: 36 min
Rating: 58/100












You can read my review (in Italian) about the Nuclear Perversions/Goatblood split through the following link:

http://www.heavymetalwebzine.it/2015/08/08/goatblood-nuclear-perversions-rex-judaeorum-wolves-of-apocalypse-2015/

So many albums were released on the 2016's Christmas Eve with the purpose to celebrate the desecration of Christ that the gifts were real sonic blasphemies! One of them was "Veneration of Armageddon" of Goatblood, a German duo not new for me since I knew them through their split with Nuclear Perversions released 2 years ago for Iron Bonehead Productions. Shortly after that split, Goatblood (which becomes a three-piece for the live rituals due to the addition of a bassist) released their first album, "Adoration of Blasphemy and War", and now they are back with another "interminable" bible of blasphemous obscenities through an unholy alliance with their compatriot label Dunkelheit Produktionen!

Fides Inversa - "Rite of Inverse Incarnation" (World Terror Committee, 2017)

Band: Fides Inversa
Title: Rite of Inverse Incarnation
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 13th January 2017
Time: 19 min
Rating: 80/100













You can read my review (in Italian) about "Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans" through the following link:

http://www.heavymetalwebzine.it/2015/05/13/fides-inversa-mysterium-tremendum-et-fascinans-2014/

It's always an honour when an Italian band acquires an excellent international reputation. This is the case of Fides Inversa, a duo able to develop a good fame and a recognisable sound through an intense live activity and a small discography made only of 2 fantastic and difficult albums, both released by strong European labels since the first one was disseminated by the French Osmose Productions while the second one by the German black metal label World Terror Committee. In particular, Fides Inversa are building with W.T.C. a collaboration so fecund to become temporarily an international quartet for their last production, "Rite of Inverse Incarnation", where the singer is the Swedish Wraath of Behexen while the bassplayer is nothing more than Unhold, the same boss of World Terror Committee! The results of this unholy collaboration are two very interesting songs.

Paria - "Knochenkamp" (World Terror Committee, 2016)

Band: Paria
Title: Knochenkamp
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 25th December 2016
Time: 28 min
Rating: 80/100













I must say that it's very difficult that the German label World Terror Committee, managed by Sven Zimper of the known and controversial NSBM band Absurd, disappoints the fans of black metal. In fact, this label supports many brave black metal bands often full of strong occult/esoteric lyrics. So, W.T.C. deserves a lot also this time due to its compatriots Paria and their mini-album "Knochenkamp"!

Paria, guided by the guitarist Akeon, aren't a new band considering that they plays even since 1995. Hence, they lived the so-called golden years of the second wave's black metal also if, at that time, they recorded only some unofficial demos releasing their first album even in 2008 after many line-up changes. Now, Paria have spewed forth 3 albums, and the most appreciated of them is the last one, "Surrealist Satanist", which saw the rays of light just through World Terror Committee in A.D. 2013.