KRYPTONOMICON – Daemonolatry

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• Band:
  KRYPTONOMICON
• Duration: 00:39:09
• Available from: 06/30/2024
• Label:

• Punishment 18 Records

Observing with great attention and pleasure, the umpteenth artistic work of our Paolo Girardi, we welcome the third effort of Kryptonomicon. After the good debut of 2021, labeled “Nekromantikos”, and the more controversial “Infernalia”, released two years ago, here is the present “Daemonolatria”. An album, promoted again by Punishment 18 Records, which marks, albeit in its own small way, a new chapter of the band from Monfalcone. The reason? Soon said. Referring to the perfect number of a few lines above, it was the change that occurred in the summer of last year that revolutionized, in part, the artistic direction of the Friulian group: with the exit of the singer Luca Sterle, in fact, the choice of Kryptonomicon was to continue with the canonical formula of the power-trio, leaving the guitarist Stefano Rumich and the bassist Franck Ponga, the task of alternating behind the microphone.
Sterle's vocal timbre is more putrid and rotten, the unsheathed one of the Rumich/Ponga duo is more raw and splashed: hence the transition from a black metal marked death, macabre and desolate, to sounds where the black/thrash mix pulls the strings, preferring more tense and, as the title suggests, demonic episodes. At the base, however, there is once again the root of the old school, with Celtic Frost drawing a sulphurous and sharp frame within which the Gorizia trio enjoys launching the ten invectives present on the album, combining the mad fury of Venom and Possessed with the thrash matrix of a purely Teutonic style (Destruction and Sodom in primis).
It is the mantra “Satanama” that kicks off the monstrous ride undertaken by Rumich and his companions, thus resuming the deadly frame of the cover. A crazy race torn by pungent and sequential riffs, on which the rhythms imposed by drummer Randy Legovini skillfully alternate malignant midtempos with the classic more sustained restarts.
Even if they don't explode with creativity on a lyrical level, Kryptonomicon keep the tension high thanks to songs like “The Emperor Rising”, dark in its initial pace before exploding in all its rage; a poisonous potion distilled in the past by Tom G.Warrior that still proves to be winning and cardinal today. Tribal shades instead resonate in “There's No Life, There's No Death”, with dark and plaintive tones, thus recalling some characteristics of the first work (“Timor Mortis Morte Pejor”). Crudeity of intent that manifests itself explicitly in “Lord Of Flies”, anticipating a “The Sea Of Creeping Evil” in which even stars and stripes elements (i.e. Slayer) make their appearance. Deadly scythe in action without half measures, continuously fueled by the script staged by the three musicians, a little static towards the end of the album, where the blows inflicted in the first pieces are expertly (perhaps too much) repeated, before the theatrical title-track definitively closes the door of this third infernal circle designed by the group from Monfalcone, author of a substantially rewarding performance, while waiting for the next steps, from which however we also expect a greater singularity of proposals.