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8.0
- Band:
Vultur - Duration: 00:35:07
- Available from: 28/02/2025
- Label:
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Masked Dead Records
The recording return of the vultur, at least in the form of unpublished music published in full-length, was not a discounted step, if we consider the long distance between the previous work and this “Cultores de Perdas and Linna”. Fortunately, however, time does not seem to have scratched the Sardinian formation, which, brought together around the Mastermind Attalzu, issues a dazzling example of Black Metal to the old way, declined according to an imaginary of the texts and a language deeply inspired by the ancestral cults of their homeland, Sardinia precisely. Deeply inspired by their past and the fundamental Nuragic tradition, the vultur put together a collection of pulled and sharp songs, which retrace some of the primordial rites of their region through the use of the local language, a solution at least original that adds charm and mystery to this fiery, new album.
If someone came to mind what he did as a clingystru and his inkuvatu with the Sicilian local culture already long ago, he will have to change his mind: where the Sicilian also influenced his music stylistically with Mediterranean instruments and melodies, the vultur move their inspirational compass much more north, in the icy snowy lands of Scandinavia, making a set of songs that seem suspended over time and directly connected to the Nordic dawn of the genre. To emerge with power from “Su Frastimu”, “Eternu Trumentu” or “Suspegu” is immediately the Drumming very precise and mercilessly without Lorenzo Balia, focused on an almost perennial blast-beat who properly pounded the listener and on which the fast Riff of Attalzu and Nicola Spaziani are intertwined with great class, excellent land for the soft raids of the bass, often attentive to create, Complementary rhythmic lines but not equal to the six ropes, and for the acid screen vocals that bring with their mind to the great black metal masterpieces of the past.
In addition to “Aretis”, a short acoustic interlude, sometimes a more accentuated melodic sense emerges, especially in some passages of “Femina Mala” and in the final “ENEINI PARK” – the only song sung in Italian, with a more relaxed and dynamic structure – but we can consider in general “Cultores de Perdas and Linna” as a job where speed, sinister atmospheres and violent passages are the masters, often recalling the immortal legacy of bands such as Dark Funeral, Prima Satyricon, Tsjuder and 1349.
An original and captivating artistic and cultural concept therefore marries a fierce, exciting, slightly monothematic musical proposal at times, but always characterized by high quality and instrumental passages worthy of the best black metal realities, without ever showing signs of indecision or weakness for the duration of the disc.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
