{"id":70817,"date":"2018-06-29T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=70817"},"modified":"2018-07-18T16:15:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:15:43","slug":"album-review-lilla-veneda-lilla-veneda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-lilla-veneda-lilla-veneda\/","title":{"rendered":"LILLA VENEDA – Lilla Veneda (2018) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

LILLA VENEDA
Lilla Veneda<\/strong><\/span>
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\nVia Nocturna (2018)<\/span>
Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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From the underworld of Wroc\u0142aw in Poland comes an intriguing bunch whose sophomore outing has something of the grandiose about it.<\/p>\n

Lilla Veneda \u2013 named after a Polish drama written in 1839 by Juliusz S\u0142owacki \u2013 have, and rather to my surprise, snuck up on me with what could well be deemed a modern metal masterpiece. I never experienced their 2012 debut album Diagnosis<\/em>, but I\u2019m forever thankful that this death \/ black work of great majesty has plopped into my lap.<\/p>\n

This a gloriously Gothic recording that boasts ten tracks, grotesquely ornate designs that chug with dark poetic intensity. Lilla Veneda are a band somewhat melodramatic in their slick and rich riffs; the crux of this scowling yet juddering offering being wonderfully orchestrated and churning black rhythms formed by the sturdy rolling guitar waves of Antris.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Divination\u2019 features speed variances and stunning lyrical content as frontman Virian barks, \u201cAt the serpents hollow near the Slavic holy lake \u2013 Gop\u0142o, Twin flower-named sisters, Roza and Lilla, Gather together to discuss the first\u2019s, Vision of the end of Weneds\u2019 tribe\u201d<\/em>. And what\u2019s clear here with this conceptual outing is the band\u2019s intelligence and their ability to tell a dark tale of tribal conflict and yet encase it within a framework of catchy, fast and also cleverly mid-paced bursts.<\/p>\n

The whole record boasts energetic digressions from the norm\u2019 so as to create a vast spectrum of ideas, all contained herein on what is essentially a black metal record daubed in beefy packaging. The guitars surge throughout like lethal oily tentacles, with simmering percussion and stark booms evolving in slick, menacing mantras and spectral glimmers, such as with the slow- threatening glint of \u2018Invaders Demeanor\u2019. But throughout, this self-titled work feels like a secluded spot, somewhere near the ruins within the forest \u2013 a place moody yet magnetic.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Witch And The Dead\u2019 rumbles in contemporary, well-oiled fashion \u2013 the chugging weight steamrolling the audience before the squawking vocal rasps take over in Teutonic fashion. Meanwhile, \u2018Serpents Bane\u2019 begins in cinematic fashion and is a gloriously Gothic slice of orchestration threaded with snappy shouts and caustic bass lines. \u2018Trickster\u2019 is even deadlier; a deep, booming jolt attacks with thrashy sensibilities before the combo hurtles, full pelt, into a barrage of gnarly speed.<\/p>\n

\u2018Stabat Lilla Dolorosa\u2019, like the rest of the songs here, boasts engrossing and complex lyrical flutters, the whole scenario of some sombreness even with those blackened rattles, while the steady black waterfall of \u2018Wheels Of Misfortune\u2019 remains haunting even within that abrasive guitar tone. However, \u2018Entropy Blaze\u2019 takes the thorny nature of proceedings even further; this spiky hyper blast being the album\u2019s pivotal track in terms of grandiose yet barbaric presentation.<\/p>\n

As the atmospheric yet speedy \u2018Martyranny\u2019 runs rampant and closer \u2018Chmury\u2019 wraps things up with its melodious ad wiry grey gauze, I can only absorb such a panorama that involves stark storytelling and more often than not perky black metal shards, this one remaining a focused and grand construction that through idea alone is rather outstanding. But to express it through such segments of devilish grace and fluid yet elegiac streaks is astonishing.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing primitive or crude about Lilla Veneda<\/em>. This is very much a modern black metal extravaganza that is potent and cackles with such a brisk pace that one can only bow down to its wicked bluster.<\/p>\n

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

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