Satanath Records - Reviews: SAT397

Reviews: SAT397

Indesiderium is a Los Angeles based black metal duo founded by vocalist, guitarist, and bassist Atrum Lorde and now accompanied by drummer Warhead. Indesiderium has released two albums so far, Wanderer of the Abyssal Plains (2015) and Of Twilight and Evenfall... (2018), and now a third one, The Nocturnal Seance Of Lucifer, is set for co-release later this week by Satanath Records (Georgia) and WP And RO Productions (Netherlands).

From the beginning, the band’s mission has been to channel in uncompromising terms the bleakness, the cold majesty, and the evil of second-wave black metal in its golden age, paying homage to the influence of such bands as Dawn, Dark Funeral, Dissection, Immortal, and Emperor. As a sign of where the band now stand in that mission, we’re premiering today a song from their new album named “Apocalyptic Funeral March“.

The song is definitely bleak, coldly majestic, and evil, but its creation of those atmospheres is achieved through an arrangement of changing melodic guitar motifs that displays a classically influenced degree of refinement (at least as we hear it).

Those motifs, rendered with impressively fast finger-work, emerge, change, and cohesively circle back, moving the moods of the music as they do. Without prelude, the guitar swarms in a maddened frenzy, and then diabolically spirals up, Paganini-like in its speed and delirium. It also renders a more depleted and desolate melody, and then seems to wail in misery, but also coldly blazes in signs of cruel and haughty grandeur before re-connecting with earlier riffs and deepening all of those dark changing moods — moods of madness and delirium, of anguish and agony, of cruel majesty and cold disdain.

In tandem with the changing riffs the drum patterns also change, varying among steady metronome-like thumps, thunderous blast-beat cannonades, rumbling double-bass turbulence, and acrobatic fills.

What’s most evil about the song are the vocals, which may take some getting-used-to, especially among fans of more modern black metal. Their gritty cackling conjures images of vicious demons being strangled, but their hatred undiminished.

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California's black metal masters return with their third full length release to date. The Nocturnal Seance Of Lucifer is ten tracks of pure,quality black metal that shouldn't be missed. Atrum Lorde handles writing the music for the band and does a great job of crafting fast and aggressive traditional black metal with some atmospheric passages that are played with skillful writing. The guitars are played with fast razorsharp guitar patterns. Their are some mid paced guitars that are also used in throughout the songs. The vocals are black metal screams and shrieks that are powerful in their delievery. The drums are fast drum passages that are crazed in the delievery. The drums are played with some well executed and delievered drum patterns. The music on The Nocturnal Seance Of Lucifer is traditional,cold black metal that is only recomended for the pure black metal fanatics of the underground scene.

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