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The title of the forthcoming third album by the Italian black metal band Ad Noctem Funeriis leaves no doubt that the band have maintained their blasphemous stance: Abyss, Fire, Brimstones will soon join the group’s preceding full-lengths, Satan’s March Black Metal (2015) and …Of Evil and Torment (2009). As those dates demonstrate, the band do not rush their releases, but instead take their time to ensure that the Hell they unleash on Earth is accomplished through carefully crafted campaigns.
That care shows strongly in the song we’re premiering today from the newest album in advance of its April 12 release by Symbol Of Domination Productions and Pluton’s Rising Productions. And you need not be a follower of the Left Hand Path to be swept away by its dark grandeur and incendiary power.
The new album begins with three tracks that bear the name “Abyss“, and the one we’re presenting today is “Abyss III“. Its opening riff, which unfurls over rapidly firing percussion and a turbulent bass line, is immediately captivating — a glorious blaze of sound that’s nevertheless also tinged with heartache. There’s tremendous torment in the vocalist’s shattering screams and in the lead guitar’s fiery flickering, which elevate the music’s emotional intensity to an even higher plateau where the music takes the breath away.
As the harmonized riffing cycles over and over again, it digs deeper into the listener’s head, but also subtly changes, making the experience sound more bleak and hopeless, but no less sweeping and electrifying. Solemn and earnest singing, which rises higher and higher, creates a new shade of sound, and the wonderful bass performance remains prominent. The one thing you shouldn’t expect is any softening or slowing — here, the band are fully dedicated to making the music’s emotional power and intensity relentless.
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2022/03/03/an-ncs-premiere-ad-noctem-funeriis-abyss-iii/
Ad Noctem Funeriis are a band from Italy that h as been featured before in this zine and on this recording goes for more of a satanic and occult style of black metal and this is a review of their 2022 album "Abyss, Fire, Brimstones" which was released as a joint effort between Symbol Of Dominion and Pluton's Rising Productions.
A very fast and raw sound starts off the album along with a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats. Melodies are also added into a lot of the guitar riffing while the vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams as well as the music also being very heavily rooted in the 90's second wave era.
Some of the tracks are also very long and epic in length while the solos and leads are also done in a very dark yet melodic style when they are utilized. Some of the songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with one track also adding in a brief use of clear vocals and introducing spoken word parts onto the album and as the recording progresses an acoustic guitar instrumental can also be heard
On this recording Ad Noctem Funeriis plays a style of occult black metal that is very satanic, raw, aggressive and melodic sounding. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover Satanism and Occultism themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Ad Noctem Funeriis and if you are a fan of occult and satanic black metal, you should check out this album.
http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.com/2022/05/ad-noctem-funeriisabyss-fire.html
Italian band Ad Noctem Funeriis are out with the album "Abyss, Fire, Brimstones", and extreme metal is the style explored on this production. This is a high pace and high intensity variety of the form, with busy drum cascades and tight riff barrages leading the way and fluctuating and cutting harmony guitar solo runs served in liberal amounts throughout. Minimal and subtle tone alterations provides the main parts of the variety, with very occasional slowdowns also adding a further dimension when appearing. The main vocals are harsh, distorted and downmixed a bit, with contrasting clean spoken vocal details used to good effect throughout as well as occasional spoken harsh vocals. The band also highlight their musicianship in a very different manner on 'Brimstone I', a one off on this album with it's gentle and more acoustic oriented mode and form. A production to seek out by those who love their extreme metal when it is tight, high paced and delivered with high intensity and integrity.