Blasfemia - Ancient Occult Wisdom (2015)

   "Ancient Occult Wisdom" is the second full-length album by Blasfemia, a one man band formed in 2010.  The productiveness of señor Mr. Nicolás Fariña (the man behind the project) is quite spectacular according his past presence of various other bands as drummer, and more importantly, because Blasfemia's music is far from  being unifacial.
   The album offers quite decent thrashing black metal that recalls the spirit of the '80s in the well known dirty, ancient South American way. This approach is definitely more related to the traditional local scene, therefore it might sound pretty nostalgic. This means, musically thrash metal influences are dominant, and the atmosphere has very reduced role by being subordinated to dirty, echoing sound. This sound (on the side of the main concept of course) therefore also follows the already vintage basics on the line of Sarcófago, Pentacrostic or old Sepultura. From the thrash metal side, except the quite evident influence of Slayer, German thrash metal bands like Sodom, Kreator and Necronomicon could be mentioned as possible inspirational factors. "Ancient Occult Wisdom" is a quite diverse album by themes despite being thrash/black, even some old heavy metal (in this raw and aggressive context melodic death) are involved, extending the '80s touch. For the fans of old school sound it's definitely a potential favorite.