Morbyda – Under the Spell

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• Band:
  Morbyda
• Duration: 00:40:08
• Available from: 20/06/2025
• Label:

• Dying Victims Productions

There are times when those who write a review wonders about the validity or not of some prejudices: in a market that is perceived as every more saturated year, it is legitimate to doubt a group if this presents themselves as the maximum of discounted and predictability.
Today we take as an example the debut album of the Morbyda: around from 2022 and born from the union of Chris (voice of the Indian Nightmare, in which he plays like Jaguars Claw) and Joris of the Boundless Chaos, presents himself as 'Blacker Speed ​​Metal': in essence, another group with the Nifelheim as a reference name. If we add a truly ugly moniker (in Italian horrendous, in English little better) and a very trivial title, we already have a clear picture of how “Under The Spell” can play.
The various titles (“Evil”, “The Curse”, “Sacrifice”) do not promise at all well and suggest that they are dealing with someone who does not even try to stand out from the mass. If we go to hear the disc, something changes: despite containing all the elements that we expect from a formation like this (item that oscillates between a Screaming like first destruction, with the acute to the Tom Araya period “Show no mercy”, guitars in standard tuning and a very debtor sound of all the names we have already mentioned), the Germanic quartet has well thought of putting something that we would not even
In fact, in almost all the pieces of this album the influence of the tribulations makes itself a lot and that type of atmospheres is not something that everyone chooses to propose. The problem is (as unfortunately often happens for a not indifferent quantity of contemporary formations), like this reflects in the quality of writing: in a genre in which three or four riffs are enough, putting more and choosing structures all too elaborate leaves nothing memorable to the listener, if it is not done with knowledge of the facts. It is no coincidence that the song that remains in the lead is “Morbid Ways of Dying”, with a refrain and the classic song form which then turns out to be winning.
There are therefore the conditions for sufficiency, but no more than this for the moment: it is clear that at the end of the accounts the Morbyda have some more ideas than the average, even if they have not yet understood how to use it in the best way.
We remain confident that a next disc can constitute a new step forward, and on our part perhaps we recommend that you also rethink the improvement of the moniker. In the meantime, we recommend other recent releases of the Dyng Victims Productions, such as the new Hexecutor album and the debut of the Sexmags.

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