Another Side Records, 2016
Music: Black Metal
Website: pl-pl.facebook.com/BlackCult/
Duration: 51:45 minutes (10 tracks)
Country: Croatia
BLACK CULT is a quintet from Rijeka in Croatia. “Cathedral of the Black Cult” is the second material and previously was released the album “Neo-Satanism” in 2014. You do not associate the Croatian BLACK CULT with the black-metal band from Brazil with the same name or with the black-thrash BLACK CULT from Bolivia. The cover-art of “Cathedral of the Black Cult” is trivial – the repeated the same image of Baphomet. They could try a more imaginative graphic design, which could give even more attractiveness for this album with the very good music.
The music of Croats is extreme black metal, but technical, difficult, varied. They do not play a few monotonous riffs throughout the album with the unintelligible vocals. The aggression is dominant but there still are the changes of rhythms and melodies, and the brutal passages are interspersed with slower pieces. These slowdowns are often very heavy, like in “Until the Devil Takes Us”. The lead guitar often plays the melodic motifs, and this combined with the aggression of other instruments gives an interesting effect – for example “Dark Matter”. Some of the songs are based on a galloping rhythm, like “Hierophant”, also the cover-song of MOTÖRHEAD “Kingdom of the Worm”. This cover-song is played with a much more aggressive way than the original, but I think Lemmy would liked it, because the song keeps a high level.
Almost every track contains a melodic solo in the style of heavy-metal, such element is well. This makes the compositions are enriched. The drummer is very good, he plays broken rhythms. He do not save himself energy. The singing of singer is aggressive, but understandable and expressive. The vocal brings a lot positive stuffs to the music on the disc. In the song “Ego These absolvo” was used the short sounds of piano and the screams of the damned, which formed the background for the instruments. And at the very end of the track was used the clean singing in Gregorian style.
All the musicians are perfectly in tune. The production is clear but the atmosphere of the album is dark, overwhelming. “Cathedral of the Black Cult” is well-thought album. The band knows what it wants to play and they are able to do this. I recommend this album to all lovers of extreme metal.
Tracklist:
1.Black Cathedral
2.Worship the Beast
3.Dark Matter
4.Until the Devil Takes Us
5.The Witches Dance
6.Hierophant
7.Undeath
8.Gaze of Insanity
9.Ego Te Absolvo
10.Kingdom of the Worm (MOTORHEAD cover)
Line-up
Morbid – vocal
The Fallen – lead guitar
Azaghal – rhythm guitar
Lesnik – bass
Insanus – drums
Rate: 8.5/10
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