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- Band:
Affliction Vector - Duration: 00:28:33
- Available since: 06/06/2025
- Label:
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Iron Bonehead Prod.
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Like a long-seemed malefiction, the first full-length of the Affliction Vector, a local project known at the time of the EP “Death Comes Supreme”, dating back to five years ago, and proponent of a hallucinated Black/Death of contemporary matrix, finally arrives.
Music sprouted by the infected seeds scattered in the underground by the various Black Curse, Lvcifyre and Teitanblood, and that the duo composed of ANS (ex grime, ex Ooze) and Stefano S. (claustrum, fatuous fire) again proves to be able to face with ease, by challenging the stages of a self -destructive ritual based on poison and blood.
It is no coincidence, in short, that from the small silver Records ours have moved on to the much more powerful Iron Bonehead productions for the publication of these eight tracks, nor that an artist of the caliber of Daniele Valeriani (Dark Funeral, Mayhem, Unanimated) was involved from a graphic point of view: net of the disability and madness that pervade its interpretation, “Contra Hominem” is undoubtedly The fruit of a safe reality, which knows where to put your hands in the mysma darkness of the vein to extract something effective and well -kept, replicating in some ways what Feral Forms has been done and lowering the listener in a truly left atmosphere.
This starts from an instrumental maelstrom where guitars rutilant in the abyss, with black, death and thrash ideas at very sustained speeds, the battery often gives the impression of being beaten, more than playing, and the melody emerges in a Luciferin key, while in the background a series of cries and clean voices alternate with the sense of disorientation of the tracklist, whose incede Indeed, thinking that a part of the message remains hidden, impersoncrutable as the wet heart of a forest or cave could be.
A fascinating sound fresco, as long as you are totally 'inside' the vein in question, whose limits go more than anything else tracked down in a small duration (also considering the presence of two interludes) and in a personality still in the making, which I am very little done if you compare excellent works such as “Burning in Celestial Poison” or “from the visceral abyss”.
The road traced, however, is the right one: moving from the aforementioned base, and further developing the plots of their speech (sometimes a little hasty), the Affliction Vector show here to have all the credentials to carve out a space inside the most perfidious and Venetian European circuit, for a debut not to be underestimated and to be tasted strictly in the dark, at the maximum volume.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
