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Despite quite some years of existence - Artificum Nex were formed in 2007 - this Russian band didn’t release but one single official thing, the EP Desert Of Sins. This mini-album, consisting of four tracks, was released via one of the greatest labels from Russia, Satanath Records, in July 2013.
Desert Of Sins stands for a (slightly mechanical sounding yet) highly melodic and rhythmic form of Death-injected Black Metal. The melodies sound epic and are based on traditional elements rather than progressive ones, despite the modern production. Sometimes the band comes with pretty technically-performed excerpts, but in general this anti-experimental EP is mainly based on safe riffing and evident, little predictable rhythm structures. The tempo varies throughout the whole album, with slower and faster pieces, but without exaggeration whatsoever. The vocals are enormously fiery and raspy, and the groovy bass lines are very prominent, which is a good thing for they are nice in their support.
70/100
Artificum Nex are a band from Russia that has had an album reviewed before in this zine and plays a very raw and melodic form of black metal and this is a review of their 2013 album 'Desert Of Sins" which was released by Satanath Records.
A very dark, raw and heavy guitar sound starts off the ep along with some grim black metal vocals and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them along with the solos and leads also using a great amount of melody and when the music speeds up it has more of a raw feeling along with a small amount of blast beats.
Throughout the recording you can hear a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and the vocals also get very deep at times and clean playing can also be heard in certain sections of the recording and some of the riffs bring in some old school metal elements at times while also having a more modern approach.
Artificum Nex plays a style of black metal on this recording that is very raw at times while also being very melodic and having a perfect balance between modern and old school influences, the production sounds very powerful while the lyrics cover dark themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Artificum Nex and if you are a fan of raw and melodic black metal, you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "My Damnation" and "In Abyss Of Empirical Dreams".
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