{"id":13452,"date":"2013-05-28T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=13452"},"modified":"2013-08-04T11:42:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T11:42:38","slug":"album-review-imprecation-satanae-tenebris-infinita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-imprecation-satanae-tenebris-infinita\/","title":{"rendered":"IMPRECATION – Satanae Tenebris Infinita (2013) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

IMPRECATION
Satanae Tenebris Infinita<\/strong><\/span>
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\nDark Descent (2013)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hard to believe that Imprecation, who hail from Texas, have been around since the early 90s, but it\u2019s no surprise that their long awaited full-length debut album is a smoking old school death metal mini-masterpiece.<\/p>\n

The quintet have certainly been through the mill since their 1992 Ceremony Of Nine Angels<\/em> demo, but now they\u2019ve made it with Satanae Tenebris Infinita<\/em>, a nine-track journey into the depths of fiery hell, bolstered by Dave Herrera\u2019s raspy bellows and those almost sludge-laced doomy riffs courtesy of Adumus duo Danny Hiller (aka Archfiend) and Milton Luna (aka Moon).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not really sure why it\u2019s taken Imprecation so long, but the 15-year hiatus from 1995 to 2010 seemed to have signalled the end of this death metal act. However, like one of those partly decomposed zombies in so many of today\u2019s undead films, Imprecation have wrenched themselves from their dormancy and Satanae Tenebris Infinita<\/em> is really an album to be proud of.<\/p>\n

As a death metal album this is very much a no thrills affair that simply relies on baseball bat drums from Ruben Elizondo (aka Vomit; Adumus), crushing bass from David Ramirez (aka Cerberus; also of Adumus) and simple yet effective dynamics, bereft of gimmicks, to make this one helluva heavy experience.<\/p>\n

The album opens with the churning black waters of \u2018Blood Dominion\u2019, a track that is at its most evil when it slows to an almost gloomy pace. Herrera sounds as if he\u2019s had too many nights swallowing barbed wire such are his hoarse yet chesty bellows. The guitars for the most part are at the low end, give or take a few flailing solos to interrupt proceedings, but the drum sound is the winner here \u2013 its plod something akin to a sodden corpse being thrown up against a wall.<\/p>\n

\u2018From Beyond The Fiery Temples\u2019 sees the band find a squalid middle ground between the UK\u2019s Bolt Thrower and that archetype Floridian sound which made death metal so popular at the tail end of the 80s and early 90s. It\u2019s such a shame these guys weren\u2019t part of that scene because judging by this opus they would have quite easily stood their ground. Just a few spins of this black little record had me thinking of Incantation, and some of the even older, grimmer sounding death \/ black metal acts like Blasphemy such was the primitive structures within.<\/p>\n

The likes of \u2018Chapel Of Rotting Flesh\u2019, \u2018Rancid Blood On Blackened Thorns\u2019 and \u2018Of The Black Earth\u2019 are extremely foetid numbers, boasting ominous riffs and some of the best lyrics I\u2019ve heard for quite a while. It\u2019s no wonder these guys are considered a cult combo, because the music on offer here is delivered in such a devastating fashion and it reaches its climax on the closing \u2018Carrion Winds Of Golgotha\u2019.<\/p>\n

Satanae Tenebris Infinita<\/em> is the sort of album you\u2019d imagine getting your clammy hands on back in the late 80s on some grubby demo. The guitars are so potent yet unholy in their basement quality, the brooding atmosphere evoking descriptions of subterranean domains of ill air and graven imagery.<\/p>\n

Imprecation\u2019s debut opus comes highly recommended to anyone who likes their extreme metal very heavy, and reeking of that vintage air \u2013 proof that even today, amidst the modern technology, bands like this can exist and still make an impact that is far greater than so many pretenders.<\/p>\n

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

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