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- Band:
Malignance - Duration: 00:46:27
- Available from: 16/06/2025
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Hidden Marly Production
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Twenty-two years after the publication of the debut “Regina Umbrae Mortis” (authentic gem of the Italian underground Black Metal) and after some some years experienced as a duo or as one-man band, 2025 marks the return of the Ligurian Malignance in complete formation, with the Mastermind, singer and guitarist Arich now flanked by Ein to the guitar, LeviaThan on the bass and MX on the battle (all members of the very first incarnations of the group).
The opportunity to test the form of ours of ours is given to us by the publication of the new album, entitled “Death and the says – rhyme of the unredemedemed”, a concept album in black sauce based on the famous poem “The ballad of the old sailor” by St Colerridge, faced by our with the usual feral and combative attitude.
If the path undertaken back in 2000 has, in fact, saw the malignance passed by a black metal strongly influenced by the thrash to a style at the same time more atmospheric, but also more ferocious and uncompromising, what has never been missing from the music of these Genoese Blacksters is the intensity, and just lend ear to the explosive “The De The Dic”, placed in the opening, to realize: And merciless, he brings us back to the Swedish school of Marduk and Dark Funeral, although filtered through Umbratile typically Italic sensations, while careful detachments, sometimes remedied the never denied love of ours for the most rough and archive thrash and sometimes the evident infatuation for the atmospheric and obscure black final portion), give the entire depth, drama and the evocative charge necessary to do justice to the topic dealt with.
The subsequent “Sailing the Seas of Eternity” introduces into the equation of 'Bathoryani' elements (epic period) of great effectiveness, which explode even more fragorously in the implacable cadence of “Binger of Woe”, but it is the whole album in general that blesses the descriptive force of which the music of the malignance is imbued, which settles other great shots thanks to the ferocious shots thanks to the ferocious shots thanks to the ferocious shots “Maelstrom's grasp”, the varied “The Perpetual Drift” and the thunderous “Unredeemed”, and then close in beauty among the spires of the suffocating, deadly and very black “Requiem for the Damned”.
As suggested by the splendid cover image, there is no light, in this album; Yet all eaves of dark beauty and with rewarding darkness, and also what lies dead in reality vibrates of irrepressible, abysmal energy.
The malignances have returned more inspired and focused than ever, and this “The Death and the says – rhyme of the unredemedemed” is a declaration of intent to which every respectable Blackster would do well to offer ear.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
