{"id":103259,"date":"2024-05-17T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103259"},"modified":"2024-05-23T12:47:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T11:47:36","slug":"album-review-serement-abhorrent-invocations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-serement-abhorrent-invocations\/","title":{"rendered":"SEREMENT – Abhorrent Invocations (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEREMENT
Abhorrent Invocations<\/strong><\/span>
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\nDolorem (2024)<\/span>
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Two years ago Greek blackened deathsters Serement teased my ears with their all too short Deviation From God<\/em> EP. Only two tracks were featured \u2013 \u2018Malevolent Mist Over The Mount Of The Deceased\u2019 and \u2018No Reflection For His Shadow\u2019 \u2013 but both songs were savage, if somewhat clicky in the drum sound. Even so, the Athens-based combo disappeared and I wondered if they would return. But now Serement is back with a debut full-length album which features both the aforementioned tracks and a batch of even better songs to boot.<\/p>\n

The real high point of the album is the vocals which act as dense blankets of suffocating darkness, but the overall sound and atmosphere is so deep and dark, even with the blasphemous fast numbers such as opening cut \u2018Stench Of Torment\u2019. Imagine if you will a blackened incarnation of Deicide with hectic melodies and hateful blasts.<\/p>\n

Strangely, Abhorrent Invocations<\/em> is a record that\u2019s instantly accessible even with its pitch black writing shadows of technicality and speedy sections where drummer Vaggelis Vasilopoulos works overtime. Slower segments do emerge throughout the opus and there\u2019s some great, meaty breakdowns on \u2018Sworn\u2019 and \u2018Subliminal Enslavement\u2019 where the band gets extremely melodic, enticing you into their yawning black charms.<\/p>\n

This time round \u2018Malevolent Mist Over The Mount Of The Deceased\u2019 and \u2018No Reflection For His Shadow\u2019 sound meatier and more evil, but maybe that\u2019s just because they are surrounded by such hellish designs and those thunderous kick-drums. It\u2019s such a colossal wall of sound that\u2019s never short of ferocity.<\/p>\n

\u2018Frozen Dawn Of Death\u2019 snakes with a sinister tone in the guitar work, exhibiting those slick black metal nuances which cavort with thicker, fuller dynamics. At times streaks of Morbid Angel creep into the fray and \u2018Forging The Darkness\u2019 provides fat, twisted riffs and throaty vocal chants. Serement are something akin to a black, slithering serpent worming from its foul lair like an oil-slick carpet. This is compelling and dramatic without being flashy, a Greek phantom adorned in black and accompanied by storms.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SEREMENTAbhorrent Invocations Dolorem (2024)Rating: 8\/10 Two years ago Greek blackened deathsters Serement teased my ears with their all too short Deviation From God EP. Only two tracks were featured \u2013 \u2018Malevolent Mist Over The Mount Of The Deceased\u2019 and \u2018No Reflection For His Shadow\u2019 \u2013 but both songs were savage, if somewhat clicky in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5691],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-serement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103260,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103259\/revisions\/103260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}