Morcolac – bloody

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7.5

• Band:
  Morcolac
• Duration: 00:38:53
• Available from: 28/03/2025
• Label:

• Dusktone

Thanks to a line-up, the Italians Morcolac for several years have been with the new “bloody” come to their third full-length that happens to the excellent EP “Drawbridge to Citadel of No More Dawn”. The atmospheres on the new album are less 'fantasy' and decidedly more bloody and bloody than previously, excellent for describing a world infested with vampires and other creatures belonging to the world of the night and to some European folk traditions: these are themes dear to the Morcolacs that from time to time are presented in a different light, sometimes fairytale and other times, instead, in a more violent clothes.
The vague stylistic combinations that can be done are manifold and varied, and all those bands and those albums that have probed the depths of darkness to awaken the world of non -death creatures that live there: from the Gehenna of the beginnings, to the anchs, to the cradles of Filth of the first part of the career, touching the folk folk metal until the basca and the Elffor of Elffor are shouting. Daemonlord, but what matters is the personality that he proves to have the local band now, capable of definitively creating his own distinguishable sound.
The title-track, put at the beginning, well represents the content of this “bloody”, that is, a black metal full of atmospheres, but to which violence or character is not lacking; Perhaps in it there is a slightly too marked use of the church organ synth style, but the load -bearing riffing is remarkable and the song is held up by an amazing sung, whose metric perhaps follows the melody a little too much, but the result is still creepy.
The often melodic riffing of the guitars must not make the nose turn up, because instead it is an excellent base to create great atmospheres and symphonies, as in the beautiful “Blacklight Torches from Below”: the strength of this song lies in his Old-School touch that the attentive listeners will be able to find in numerous releases of the 90s-and not only, since (only) on this song there. They are even echoes of the Caladan Brood.
For lovers of the sounds described above and for those who love the atmospheric Black Metal, this Morcolac release can also be absolutely underestimated.
In any case, there is room to improve further, perhaps starting right from the intensity of the songs on the previous EP. The fact that this band still present of the relative limits, paradoxically, leads the Morcolacs in a future perspective to be able to transform them into real strengths: in fact these areas of improvement can be worked with small precautions; For example, on this “bloody”, certain riffs in some songs could be more structured without giving in to too easy melody, and even the Synth with an old -fashioned touch could have improved in the sound level and developed more.
All in all, last year's EP is a little more intriguing than this full-length, therefore for the future the band is expected to better better, but it is missing very little to become a formation capable of emerging on everything and everyone.

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