Sunday, October 13, 2019

Ravencult - Temples of Torment (2007)

   Ravencult's full-lenght debut starts with some (probably) Orthodox mass detail and ends the same way. This introduction somehow fits to the blasphemous rampage that follows, and gives a frame to the album that suspects a higher level of defilement of the sacred.
   And to defile they do with the same aggressive and dirty sound as it's usual from Greek black metal. But the intense and effective start doesn't reflect completely the spirit of the album, cause the band also preferred old school themes with middle speed. These switching with the insane hammerings when there's some need for rageful insanity. Catchy, but typically blackened melodies are repeating frequently to plant a deeply ominous feeling in the listener, that's partly emotion related, partly foretelling the inevitable grim end that may come. But because of the noisy sound and the band's quite aggressive tone there's barely any atmosphere to form, only the repetitive ominous melodies creating some. The main feeling may remind to old Bathory, and to the early period of Darkthrone. "Temples of Torment" might be a very enjoyable album for the fans of old school styled black metal, offered by the same intense swing that could be expected from the bands of the Mediterraneum.

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