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░ ██ ██ Artist: Sickrites ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Irreverent Death Megaliths █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2013 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2014-05-11 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Death Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Cryptic Visions Arts ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: Vinyl (LP) ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ Sickrites have been poisoning our brain since █
█ quite a number of years by now and always with top █
█ quality, i.e., filthy and mortiferous sounds and █
█ grim atmospheres. █
█ After some fine releases like the debut EP and the █
█ two killer 2012 splits with Nuclearhammer in and █
█ Ill Omened, the Russian quartet is back with a █
█ more than due release, the debut full-length █
█ album. █
█ The album is called Irreverent Death Megaliths and █
█ came out a few days ago, on September 30th 2013 █
█ via the French underground label Cryptic Vision █
█ Arts. █
█ Irreverent Death Megaliths is a parade of █
█ ultra-dark ballads that will keep you busy for █
█ over 47 minutes. █
█ The full-length is probably the best type of █
█ release for adeuately expressing the skill and the █
█ creativity of this cool band as well as the █
█ multiple shades of their sound and style. █
█ Sickrites are Morkh on underworld vocals, A. on █
█ guitars, H. on bass and synths and Kim on drums. █
█ These guys play old school, definitely, and quite █
█ orthodox sepulchral metal stemming from blending █
█ gruesome slow, sludgy death metal with excursions █
█ into wild, infernal black metal. The core of their █
█ style is a hybrid encompassing, say, Incantation, █
█ early Morbid Angel, Winter, Prophecy of Doom, █
█ Bathory, Morbosidad and Celtic Frost. █
█ But surprise is one of the winning keys for this █
█ band. █
█ Sickrites are able to conjugate their ôoldö, █
█ filthy, obscure ôtombö metal driven by distorted █
█ guitars, roaring bass and pummeling drumming, with █
█ sounds coming from disparate genres. Skills and █
█ inspirational song-writing capacity enable these █
█ guys to build up impressively rich and haunting █
█ songs that continuously unfold their multifaceted █
█ nature with repeated listening. █
█ Tracks are doomy and oppressive both when █
█ dominated by slow plodding, suffocating pace and █
█ when lead by tight, breathless martial pumping █
█ rhythms. Mid-tempo rhythms prevail, although when █
█ doom and gloom prevail, the quartet will soon █
█ bring you back to flaming hell by bursting into █
█ bonecrushing riffing and insane, war-like █
█ blastbeat. But the other way round may happen as █
█ well: wild, war-like attacks may digress into █
█ almost mournful, slow and atmospheric, doom-laden █
█ melodies. An example of this is heard in the █
█ majestic opening track Pillars of the Fallen █
█ Light. █
█ But Sickrites also introduce a host of different █
█ elements like carefully dosed spices. █
█ You will be often enthralled by a stream of groove █
█ provided by the swinging rhythm of Darkthrone-like █
█ black metal refrains and probably swift hints to █
█ Venom-like heavy metal riffs. YouÆll be charmed by █
█ the adoption of bizarre solutions (e.g., in █
█ Necrogenesis Voids), complex drumming patterns █
█ (e.g., in The Temple) and/or almost prog-like, █
█ epic narrative riffs (e.g., also in Moloch █
█ Ascending). The Sickrites guys also like to create █
█ rapid, scary incursions into bleak industrial █
█ ambience or else cosmic terror either via some █
█ glacial or unusual post-modern electronic sounds █
█ (e.g., in the initial part of track Dwellers of █
█ Fleshtombs) or else by inducing some sort of █
█ sickly ethereal or venomous psychedelic black █
█ metal atmospheres distantly recalling Oranssi █
█ Pazuzu. For example, try the greatly atmospheric █
█ closing track Procession to Belial. █
█ In track The Rite the band even depict █
█ definitively northern, glaciated atmospheres by █
█ means of a ritual, almost funereal chanting █
█ echoing in the wind (Wardruna comes to my mind!) █
█ and introducing a charming, dark folk-like ballad. █
█ All these different ingredients and details will █
█ be combined into SickritesÆ nasty, toxic, █
█ incandescent, occult black-death metal which will █
█ eventually leave you with a sensation of █
█ mysterious darkness. █
█ MorkhÆs vocals effectively contribute to impart █
█ that sense of archaic solemnity. MorkhÆs growl is █
█ mostly deep, low and very menacing, more █
█ sepulchral than beast-like. His style is █
█ comparable with a type of chanting that I █
█ personally enjoy hugely and which is heard in █
█ several occult death metal bands like Wrathprayer, █
█ Void Meditation Cult, Father Befouled, █
█ Encoffination, and alike. █
█ Irreverent Death Megaliths is a majestic and █
█ greatly charming album, one of those albums which █
█ will not easily leave your stereo device because █
█ it is morbidly attractive and addictive like an █
█ ancient book full of nasty fairy tales and █
█ dangerous magic formulas à █
█ SickritesÆ Irreverent Death Megaliths LP is █
█ available in different cool versions, be it █
█ traditional black vinyl, smart clear vinyl or else █
█ the fancy picture disc graced by the monster █
█ blood-red art decorating the layout and done by █
█ band member H. █
█ Sickrites band has always been a generous band. █
█ Folks, it is the moment of supporting these guys █
█ and get their new album! █
█ And letÆs hope to see these metallers on stage █
█ soon à \m/ \m/ █
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░ a1. Pillars of the Fallen Light 3:49 ░
░ a2. Necrogenesis Voids 4:39 ░
░ a3. Dweller of the Fleshtombs 5:09 ░
░ a4. Deathstorms 4:03 ░
░ a5. The Temple 4:33 ░
░ b1. New World Hosanna 4:04 ░
░ b2. Moloch Ascending 5:08 ░
░ b3. The Rite 2:51 ░
░ b4. Darkness Tremendous 4:30 ░
░ b5. Procession to Belial 5:11 ░
░ 43:57 ░
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