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IN LIME - Duration: 00:49:24
- Available from: 10/24/2025
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Rockshots Records
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In Limine's absolute debut rocks!
Let's start with this 'boomer effect' phrase our review of “Inveteratus”, the debut – in fact – of this not well-defined Cremonese group which sees Matteo Galimberti, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and former Cripple Bastards, as the founding member, the only composer and, ultimately, the driving force of the combo, which later however expanded well. In fact, Matteo is now teamed up with bassist Simone Storti, we believe on a permanent basis, and even, as a recording session, a guy called George Kollias on drums. The picture is completed by the excellent and versatile Estonian vocalist Laur Lindmäe, active in semi-unknown bands such as Goresoerd and Pridian.
With such a qualitative combination of form, strength and substance, it wasn't difficult to imagine a disco, but we really wouldn't have expected such a compelling and pleasant album. The scene has been saturated for years, clones in rather self-referential genres such as those of reference for In Limine are the order of the day, but this team knows its stuff and puts it on the table with its cards calmly exposed.
We are therefore positioned between thrash metal, death metal, hardcore and metalcore, in fifty minutes that smell of Slayer and early Sepultura cubed and in the deepest sites of the human epidermis; but not only that, because in fact, as the biographical notes rightly mention, Testament, Death and Morbid Angel pop up here and there in “Inveteratus”. And we limit ourselves to mentioning only a few progenitors, because then the group recalls dozens of other bands spanning the aforementioned genres (one at random but which is right up our alley: The Haunted), always doing so in a worthy and judicious way, never as simple and mere epigones.
We also really like some of the recourses to pseudo-melodies and, above all, the very careful and perfect use of the introspective approach to the composition – read basically dark arpeggiated sections – which certainly stands out in the two instrumentals of the work, first “Echoing To Nothing” and then “A Veil, A Shield”, but also in the closing opus omnia “Misoneism”, eight minutes of multi-layered, very black, dystopian apocalypse, annihilating for atmosphere and dim light.
The rest of the tracklist is from the manual of the extreme dynamic and telluric album, including a first handful of completely encircling tracks – let's say from the first to the fourth, with “Instinction” standing out forcefully – a faster central section, breathless but a little less, and finally a mammoth coup de tail with the excellent single “Unfollow” (spectacular solos!) followed by the aforementioned “Misoneism”.
A work therefore highly advisable and recommended to anyone who can appreciate the groups mentioned – and you are certainly not few! – precisely because of his verve and his highly inspired attitude, although clearly of minimal originality and almost total derivation.
We are sure that In Limine can assert themselves in the already crowded Italian class of death metal bands and – why not? – also get some international showcases. Go and listen, come on!
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
