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- Band:
Medieval Demon - Duration: 00:50:07
- Available since: 22/08/2025
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Hells HeadBangers
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Team that wins does not change, especially if it smells of sulfur: the new work of the Greeks Medieval Demon could be summarized like this.
At the third album with the same line-up, the creature of Lord Apollyon (mind of the project, drums and keyboards) returns to the compact market, always under the aegis of Hell Headbangers: “All Powers of Darkness” contains the Luciferian violence and the melodies of the Black Metal of Hellenic matrix (here still present, even if not in the foreground), enriched by a lot of taste. Vintage for orchestrations and choirs, particularly evocative of a certain type of sound now belonging to a few decades ago (“Raging Lord of the Deep”), and by an epic patina, especially in the construction of the solos, as evident already by the initial “Mystic Path Towards the Abyss” or in “Fullmoon Over the Temple of Belial”.
The mission of the possessed team is very clear, therefore: going against any type of innovation, loading with the head down with a rutilant rhythmic section (with mutilator – at the time the load -bearing column of Rotting Christ first and Varathron then – on bass), stinging guitars, dusty keyboards and a rumor run away by the tartar abysses.
A non -original formula, and well proud of not being it: ours maintain a strenuous, blind and obstinate across the way to any change or evolution, throwing us into the fifty minutes capable of making all those who feel at home at the crossroads in which Black Metal Metal Vecchia, Heavy Metal and hidden atmospheres are at home, however, as we said, in the Greek land.
Even the saxophone in the final-emblematic, in its own way-title-track is not surprising: instead of appearing as a out of tune or excessively sliced note, it is once again (as in the previous album) in line with that rusty old school hint, declined once again between bright epic solos and the deaf, black hammer of the abysses, punctuating together with the choirs, other winds and tools.
Net of some length (“Primordial Soul of Tartarus”, “Fiforean Night”) and of an still present rugginosity in keeping some passage between pulled parts, catacombal keyboards and guitar work, “All Powers of Darkness” does not promise anything more than it is: a fair declaration of love for a certain type of sound (halfway between necromantia and mortuary Drape), reinterpreting them without necessarily wanting to overcome them.
This choice of proud immobility, also underlined by the production choices, obviously will be penalizing or worthy according to the sensitivity of the listener and their own (or not) desire of new stimuli: if you are reinforced for stubborn love for the primigated styles of certainly black metal and few pretensions, this album could have more than a few passage on the stereo and a place in your record collections. In all other cases, we are sure that you will pass beyond after the first listening.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
