Essentially a demo from a band whose description had set me up to expect the worst (drunk blackened rock and roll or something along those lines, YKES!), but I have to say that as often happens with South American bands (or bands with a South American component in this case) things actually, somehow, work out. Ethanol did its job.
Guess what, the record was recorded live in a single night so you can imagine the complexity isn’t stellar but there is a good wave of gut feeling. In a period of ritualistic interconnectedness in infinite cyclicality, this stuff managed to work, in my opinion. It’s genuinely true that they seem to take the more derivative side of early Dark Throne (not the very earliest, let’s say albums 2-4?) somewhat like a colder version of Gehenna tried to do slightly after, but hey, in the end it’s not bad at all. The idea of the Turkish demon carrying drunks home on the cover is a nice touch too.
That said, let’s be clear, nothing I’d invest thousands of euros in producing and I don’t think I’d ever consider buying out of a second spin box, but this stuff could easily end up on some fairly sizeable label, after all, if shitty bands like Bonehunter and Barbatos made it (truly inexplicable, or rather, sadly explicable), why not them?
All things considered it’s not bad for a demo, though with the glut of bands we’re drowning in these days, I don’t think it’s worth picking up on physical format unless they put together something more substantial.