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- Band:
Blood Abscission - Duration: 00:41:16
- Available from: 11/04/2025
- Label:
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Debemur dead
These Blood Abscission reside in the most total anonymity, so much so that we only get to know the project only now, through the always munifies Debemur dead, after a first work had already come out two years ago practically without a rag of promotion.
Anonymity, we said, because there is no way to understand where they come from or who they are: no social networks, no photos, no interviews, nothing of nothing.
Let's face it: an attitude of the genre, in 2025, if without an artistic solidity to support these habit of 'trveness'would leave the time it finds a little; But instead we find that, fortunately, there is substance here, and also in abundance.
This “II” (followed by – Guess a little, “I”) is a black metal album inspired and full of a grim, glacial musicality, tending to the creation of a vivid atmosphere, not without a symphonic allure that permeates the entire work, capable of recalling as much suggestions of traditional 90s school matrix, as more recent vicissitudes, on the basis of names that can range from the WHIN (To stay in the Debemur house dead) to projects such as Cult of Fire, The Hatologist, Mgla, but also reminiscences such as the Wolves in the Throne Room in the more 'landscape sorties' – we pass the term – without betraying, however, in the melodic inspirations, the calls of Scandinavian bands' 90s (dissection, but also Emperor), and not even missing the post rock. Disguise from extreme metal, scattered in various points on the disc.
The result, beyond the names mentioned, struck us a lot: the five songs (for just over forty minutes) are compelling, go from moments of angry expressiveness to a elegiac sadness ribber, also passing through less usual sounds in the black (“IV”, with its martial incede, as a successful intro).
And it is precisely here, perhaps, where the group has conquered us: with its volcanic and angry suburb, as if a self -imposed hood went to cover even the most cautious and more ferocious moments, with a lounge of sound with indefinable colors, which tries at all costs to contain an expressiveness always ready to explode beyond the permitted limit. A self -imposed limit, which serves to enhance, by contrast, the impetuosity held at bay always a moment by the apocalypse.
Images that we can translate into acid and lo-fi guitars, however played with ability and musical taste in riffing, not acting as a carpet but creating real plots, supported by a very impressive battery, which also in a deliberately scarning production must be acted as a beating, violent and vibrant beating. The construction of the songs alternates with slowing speeds, creates dynamics, with hypnotic passages and harsh restarts.
A pounding test, without forgetting the importance of a chilling melodic verve, supported by a heartbreaking voice, kept rather low in the mix, to give even more a sense of total commonality of intent between the final result of the various tools. We talked about landscapes, colors, and although the sound of the Blood Abscissions seems to be dispersed under a blanket of rarefied fog, it seems impossible not to perceive infernal brushstrokes, Balugini di Rosso to be counterbalanced by a tremendously evocative abyssal desolation and from the deadly knock.
It is useless to describe the individual songs: “II”, also thanks to the small duration, manages to be effective and convincing as a whole and from the first listening, but it is in its way of growing that becomes a great job, crawling within our brain, working on a well -coded genre in a intelligent and fresh way, capable of being stunned when the reader stops at the end of “V”. To be recovered, without a doubt.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM