{"id":18002,"date":"2014-01-07T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=18002"},"modified":"2014-03-13T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T11:51:42","slug":"album-review-nigromante-black-magic-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-nigromante-black-magic-night\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGROMANTE – Black Magic Night (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

NIGROMANTE
Black Magic Night<\/strong><\/span>
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\nShadow Kingdom (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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How about a dose of gruff metal for your weary soul? This Spanish band have taken a while to get this one onto the racks, Black Magic Night<\/em> being their debut opus and yet emerging from the cracks some ten years after their inception. <\/p>\n

Nigromante come charging out of the blocks with hammer in hand, adorned in denim \u2019n\u2019 leather and ill-lit by those black, flickering candles they\u2019ve just decorated their pentagram with. This is hot-blooded masculine retro metal that sounds like it was recorded in the dark side of the 80s, bringing with it an air of doomy aplomb and traditional metal creak, particularly in the almost tuneless yet convincing vocal growls of Angel \u201cChoco\u201d Mu\u00f1oz, who sounds like he\u2019s had one too many flasks of blood.<\/p>\n

Even so, this is a decent little record that isn\u2019t afraid to pay homage to all that\u2019s great, but gone, about heavy metal. Stirring riffs, crashing drums and images of stormy nights abound as the band slays through nine sturdy, if rather predictable, tracks with titles such as \u2018Heavy Metal Age\u2019, \u2018Black Magic Night\u2019 and \u2018Satan Death Squad\u2019, all which combine the boozy quality of bands such as Tank with the witchery of, say, Grave Digger. <\/p>\n

The title track is a rip-roarer; featuring an infectious oily riff and menacing vocal performance, like everything else on this record, it boasts some mightily predictable lyrics such as \u201cOur loud battle cry is an anthem of hate\u201d<\/em>, or the catchy drool of \u201cLights and power burning out the stage\u201d<\/em>. Hey though, there\u2019s even a hint at Sodom with the dirty feel, but I\u2019m also liking the fury of \u2018Saturnalia Of Blood\u2019 and the brooding chug of \u2018False Idol\u2019 with its tumbling drums and edgy guitar stab. <\/p>\n

Although there\u2019s nothing overtly flashy about Black Magic Night<\/em>, it\u2019s happy to exist as a straightforward record that is intent on getting your head to bang. Most of the tracks have a boozy, earthy quality without quite resorting to the cheesy aspects that bogged down bands such as Anvil, and so when the album does start to gallop, it\u2019s like witnessing an out of control stallion; at times lumbering, often careless, yet in its na\u00efvety rather endearing in its quest to become ballsy metal. Although the leads are rather dour and the drums a mere background plod, there\u2019s still an inner charm which enables the likes of \u2018Syndicate Of Crime\u2019 to raise their heads beyond mere run of the mill toil. <\/p>\n

Nigromante may not boast the world\u2019s greatest vocalist and they may be short of ideas, but once the riffs find their mark it\u2019s an album that becomes rather difficult to turn off, such is its greasy allure.<\/p>\n

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

NIGROMANTEBlack Magic Night Shadow Kingdom (2014)Rating: 6.5\/10 How about a dose of gruff metal for your weary soul? This Spanish band have taken a while to get this one onto the racks, Black Magic Night being their debut opus and yet emerging from the cracks some ten years after their inception. Nigromante come charging out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-nigromante"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002","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=18002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18005,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002\/revisions\/18005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}