After the date of formation it might be not surprising that similar to other old school South American metal bands, their music includes various influences, and it's difficult to sort them into a specific style. Officially they play black/death metal, but of course it's different from anything that's usual under this term. Thrash/death influences are definitely there, their songs reaching the same intensity, the sound has the necessary heaviness, and the themes are including the old school features of the early '90s. But "Infectus I.N.R.I." is far more diverse than an average nostalgia album. Musical references even from the '80s are possible to find in the classy lead guitar themes that are having remarkable heavy/speed metal touch. The whole album has a strong atmosphere that makes it sound like that if was planned to be released 2 decades earlier. This and the lead guitar play made the album more melodic. The suffocating/screaming vocal style suspects that some antropomorph vampiric bat creature is making these noises, and together with the atmospheric sound the main view has a strong theatrical impression that reminds to "Nightmare Theathre" by Exorcist. There may be an analogy to find in concept with some symphonic black metal bands, but Angkor had different musical roots. It's interesting that they used up the "yet unused" middle part of the painting "Lovecraft's Nightmare" by Michael Whelan as album cover. The first part appeared as the album cover of Obituary's "Cause of Death", while the last part on "Epidemic of Violence" by Demolition Hammer. But for those who are not interested only to play album art puzzle, "Infectus I.N.R.I." may hold an interesting and genuine musical experience.
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