SATHANAS – Into The Nocturne

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• Band:
  SATHANAS
• Duration: 00:32:37
• Available from: 27/09/2024
• Label:

• Moribund Records

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There are bands open to change and experimentation… and then there are Sathanas, absolute worshippers of the black flame of an old school blackened-thrash, raw, battered and, it must be admitted, not at all accustomed to the slightest variation on the theme.
Paul Tacker's primordial tenacity has been creeping into the American underground for over thirty years and the desire to go beyond certain stylistic features, now more than established, is practically close to zero. Having reached the twelfth album, the formula remains unchanged: don't change a winning team, one might say, and in fact the Pennsylvania band – which in the meantime has become a four-piece with the entry of a second guitar (Adam Stacho) – is little or not at all interested in reaching certain goals, both in terms of notoriety and from the point of view of stylistic lucubrations.
Anchored to the marrow of the darkest and most sulphurous productions, in a mix between Celtic Frost and Bathory, passing through realities more similar in size and approach such as Gravewürm and Usurper, Sathanas slap us in the face with the blue pentacle of the here present “Into The Nocturne”, drooling relentlessly ten songs that, on paper should cover a length of just over half an hour, but which, in all honesty, evolve into a single flow of black-thrash, taking us aboard an infernal rollercoaster, between up/midtempo with acid and dirty riffs, easy to catch, without distorting an ultra consolidated songwriting.
Identifying even just three songs worthy of a step on a hypothetical podium becomes quite an arduous task; however, wanting to capture the greatest rate of benevolent ignorance released by “Into The Nocturne”, we would say that the opener “Beyond The Witch” fully represents the current state of form of Sathanas. And with it, also “Arise From Fire” 'shines' for its cathartic and celebratory call, while “There Will Be Demons” makes its way through the harsh and corrosive magma thanks to the dragging, at times hypnotic pace.
Asking more from Paul Tacker's group would be too much: let's be satisfied with this latest proof of satanic devotion from a group where tradition reigns supreme.