VORAGO – Morulus

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6.5

• Bands:
  VORAGO
• Duration: 00:30:59
• Available from: 02/20/2026
• Label:

• Amor Fati Productions

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“Morulus” is the first work of Vorago, a new international creature with members from Mexico and Germany. The project is brand new and is shrouded in an aura of mystery, regarding the members, with the only certainties related to the recording studio (Scumlight, in Germany), the cover (created by Belial Necroarts) and the record company (Amor Fati Productions).

The album develops on a simple structure of eight pieces for half an hour of minimal black-death metal and quite dark in atmosphere. The German label compares Vorago's style to Swedish bands like Kill and The Third Eye Rapists, plus an addition of early Mayhem, which is actually not that far from the truth. The connection with “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas” makes sense above all for the voice and some hypnotic melodies of the tremolo guitars, with the single-pedal blastbeat carpet, as for example in “Darkhammer”, which also recalls the very first works of the Cultes Des Ghoules. In tracks like “Torquemada”, “Raedern”, “Impetus to Burn” and “Negative Response” the typical brutality of the most extremist bestial black-death metal is combined with the dirty and lo-fi black/punk of names like Bone Awl and Invunche. We like the minimalist approach and overall it gives the entire album a sense of almost DIY spontaneity à la Ildjarn and Von, even if what plays against Vorago is a production that is a little too refined for the standards of underground raw black metal or Ross Bay Cult-style war metal. Finally, there is no shortage of darker and slower passages, which in some cases almost border on death-doom, as in “Morulus” and in the ending of “Torquemada”. Returning to the vocals, the dominant formula is a mix of Attila Csihar, Nattefrost and hyper-guttural growling passages with the classic Blasphemy echo effect.

Fully in line with the musical proposal, the cover of Belial Necroarts, a work set on a very centered alternation of dark tones that enhance the prevailing infernal vortex. Summing up, “Morulus” is an honest work, well played and structured, but which fails to stand out for originality or particular distinctive features. The mix between the very first Mayhem, black/punk and bestial war metal sounds is convincing. However, production needs to be reviewed, as it would need a greater push in terms of roughness.