Caronte – Spiritvs

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• Band:
  Caronte
• Duration: 00:40:25
• Available since: 08/04/2025
• Label:

• Ván Records

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Fourteen years after the “Ghost Owl” debut EP, the Caronte have now become a 'classic' training of the international doom scene: exponents of a broad -spectrum dark sound, modeled and finished according to always different and distinctive connotations at each new release, the Parma musicians have long been a high -profile reality, constantly called to play in important sector festivals and with a sequel.
A rank of rank, who has made a long tour of all that is a dark matter in music. After leaving towards abstraction, mysticism, introspection, combining lyssergic drifts and structures in the making a strong hidden component, in the latest studio tests – specifically the album “Wolves of Thelema” and the EP “Circle” – the formation led by Dorian Bones has brought to less smoky formulas, denoting sound and a lust between Hard Rock and Metal Classic, obviously soaked in doom to the core.
If Stoner's dirty doom dirty from Doom can still be the sector of belonging, the traces of “Spiritvs” are well related but not so close to the material of the most dated “Church of Shamanic Goetia” and “Ascension”. Having said that, we realize that being too much to discuss genres for Caronte is an idle and useful speech up to a certain point, while much more is worth going to the contents of the new album.
As observed for “Wolves of Thelema”, the entry of a second guitarist has given a more dynamic cut to the band's music, guitar interactions inject thrust and bordering where the atmosphere could become all too greedy and monocordic. In the past he could want a minimum of running -in to get in tune with their style, characterized by long spirals of sound, apparently narcoleptic moments and waves; Now we go to the point in a few bars, even starting more than before the comparison with the werewolf Rolleggiare of Danzig in his best tests.
The “Scarlet Love” Open has a vicious riffing that enters into the head in an instant: all the ingredients know of Caronte in a clear way, but are declined in a lighter form and 'easy', with the most winking vocal lines of the great affabulator Dorian Bones, at a contagious battery rhythm, up to guitar verse as red and smooth as simple and smooth. Nothing so unsettling, let's be clear, for someone maybe all too sweetened: yet everything works very well.
The whole has something light, we still perceive the hidden halo, but it is mitigated and, we would dare to say, 'refreshed' by a less serious approach to the subject.
An impression that strengthens the way by making, while the Caronte hurries great songs one after the other. The Sabbatian feeling is obviously well central and the melodies in the foreground, to encourage hourly hourly that never knows of frivolity. How and more than in “Wolves of Thelema” there is a meticulous attention in enhancing the refrains, despite the fact that for large sections the music of “Spiritvs” appears as an unstoppable flow of consciousness, marked by intertwining of the bright guitars from the harmonic and the usual, charismatic, vocal test of the leader.
In some circumstances, the presence of the evil one becomes more pressing, the volumes rise and the climate is blushed (“Supernovae eggiTarius”), looking for an instrumental and vocal assault that does not give breath. Or they skillfully handle motifs of ecclesiastical derivation, Catchy like more metallic and robust ghosts (“antiKristos”). The meaning for the band's rock'n'roll makes the difference, between a recited means that knows of initiatory ceremony, and psychedelic remnants to put the chills.
Despite a more straightforward form of their other record chapters, “Spiritvs” gives the idea of ​​being a torrential continuum, where the boundaries between the tracks are labile and is the work in its entirety to fascinate, superior in the value to the simple sum of its individual pieces. For the ability to mesmerize and hallucinated the listener, through a brilliant and vintage sound, full of details and evocative, it seems to breathe the atmospheres of The Devil's Blood, under a more doomed light.
A matter of simple suggestion, perhaps, for an even more successful and constant album in inspiration than the excellent last works. Doom or be doomed!

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