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BLOODMOON ECLIPSE - Duration: 00.38.02
- Available from: 11/17/2023
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Purity Through Fire
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Out of nowhere comes the Athenians Bloodmoon Eclipse, a black metal duo who immediately declare their belligerent intentions with this debut entitled “For I Am Your Death”.
The band is made up of a duo already active in various Hellenic underground realities and more precisely by the bassist KCH (Lunar Spell) and the singer/guitarist/drummer Ungod (Slaughtered Priest, Sad, Necrohell and others).
However, don't expect Bloodmoon Eclipse to take up something from the Hellenic black metal tradition be it in the style of Rotting Christ, Necromantia, Nocternity or others, because you will be very disappointed.
In fact, although their first work was released in 2024, the spirit of our band remained imprisoned in the North of the first half of the 90s, that is, in that forge where black metal as we still know it today was forged: to really want to give a indication as to which style is loved by the Hellenic duo and which group inspired their debut “For I Am Your Death” then we can simply say Darkthrone, in this case those from the period of “A Blaze In The Northern Sky”.
Despite (or precisely because of) the raw sounds, it must be admitted that the production is consistent with the primordial music proposed, complete with raw and unfiltered screaming vocals that cover almost all the music.
The band does everything that needs to be done and in the way that is required of a band that professes to be an adherent of true black metal: the first two songs are truly killer and their simplicity takes nothing away from their intrinsic wickedness. The number of songs is right as is the length, not excessive – it doesn't reach forty minutes – but enough to impress itself on the listener's mind without boring him. The band travels quickly, the riffs are as elementary as they are effective and the rhythm changes always made at the right time give that fundamental dynamism so as not to make the album appear too similar to each other. Starting from “Hopeless Damnation” we begin to hear more clearly some thrash metal influence, which mixed with black metal brutality is not unpleasant and gives some more cadenced and powerful passages which embellish the proposed style a little. It should also be said that in songs like “Embodiment Of Christ's Lamentation” and especially in “Drowned In Eternal Desolation”, the best song on the album, the main guitar riffs are very sharp and even vaguely melodic.
In their disarming simplicity and absence of originality, Bloodmoon Eclipse stand out for the coherence and annihilating impact of their musical proposal. Even knowing how to do 'always that' can be an art if you manage to provide quality, as in the case of this new Greek reality. With good sounds, these songs could be truly devastating in a live setting.
Hard bread for the teeth of pure blacksters: not a masterpiece, but a group to definitely give a listen to.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM