Lucifer's Child – The Illuminant

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7.5

• Band:
  Lucifer's Child
• Duration: 00:39:02
• Available from: 28/03/2025
• Label:

• Agonia Records

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Seven years after the previous full-length “The Order”, and three from the split shared with Mystifier, the Lucifer's Child reappear on the market with what, from the first bars, is configured as the most complete and well-kept work of their career.
A distillate of energetic, proud and vibrant black metal which, without overdoing or reinventing the wheel, puts the Athenian group in the condition of making the fateful leap in quality, carefully dosing the ingredients available to achieve a genuinely feral and captivating result.
Not an album capable of ascribing the project led by guitarist George Emmanuel – known for his past between the ranks of Rotting Christ and Necromantia – to the contemporary Gotha of the genre, nevertheless a collection of songs from which it is finally possible to extrapolate a clear address, defined, as well as a good dose of effective and memorable solutions, between stunning attacks, heroic ridges Toad to tie everything like the thread of a narrative not left to chance.
If in the past the ideas of the quartet struggled to flow fluidly and organized from the beginning to the end, sometimes tangling on themselves, today the mix of tradition and modernity at the base of the proposal with a much more round and focus writing, between a persistent impact and a sound research that places the melodic aspect at the center, never so inspired and brilliant. In this case, each episode seems to have been conceived as a single potential, revolving around a song form that is still careful from the sagging or redundant appearance, and that in its alternation of stanzas and refrains does not fail to dispense a series of tonal, rhythmic and atmospheric variations to give a more adventurous and stratified cut to the use.
A whole that, in 2025, rediscovers the teachings of that Hellenic school not too considered by the Lucifer's Child in their first record outings, with the influences of Varathron and the band of the Sakis brothers to leak showy when the incede decides to become more epic, Heavy and rhythm (“as bestas”, “Ichor”, “Righteous flama”). Then leaving to the production choices and the subtle use of performing and dissonances the task of updating the overall sound and positioning it in a limbo neither obstinately vintage, nor free eccentric, in the manner of so much black metal of the present day.
On balance, 'concrete' is the best adjective to describe “The Enlightenment” and its content; A flight on flaming wings that does not strive to hit the goal through who knows what aerial stunts, but with the sole push of the structures, riffs and melodies, punctually capable of being remembered and inviting to the re -listening (thanks to a very functional duration of forty minutes).
Music with the attributes, as they say, that anyone who has considered diluted or off the various “pro Xristou” and “The Heretics”, or those who simply love the most sober forms and 'filed' of black metal, would do well not to underestimate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24QBPPFM9BS