Adventum Diaboli/Ο Λόγος Του Σκότους: Chapter I/2021 Full Length Review

 

  Greece's  Adventum  Diaboli  have  returned  with  a  new  recording  which  shows  the  music  going  for  more  of  an  atmospheric  style  of  occult  black  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  released  2021  album  "Ο  Λόγος  Του  Σκότους:  Chapter  I".

  Synths  and  ritualistic  spoken  word  parts  which  also  appear  on  later  songs  start  off  the  album  while  clean  playing  and  Gregorian  chants  can  also  be  heard at  times  before  going  into  a  heavier  musical  direction.  When  guitar  solos  and  leads  are  utilized  they  are  also  done  in  a  very  melodic  style  and  the  vocals  are  mostly  high  pitched  black  metal  screams.

   Melodies  are  also  added  into  some  of  the  guitar  riffing  along  with  the  faster  sections  of  the  songs  also  adding  in  a  great  amount  of  blast  beats  and  tremolo  picking  which  also  gives  the  album  more  of  a  raw  feeling.  The  music  also  has  its  atmospheric  moments  while  the  songs  also  add  in  a  decent  mixture  of  slow,  mid  paced  and  fast  parts  as  well  as  a  couple  of  the  tracks  also  being  very  long  and  epic  in  length,  as  the  album  progresses  a  brief  use  of  whispered  vocals  can  also  be  heard.

  On  this  recording  Adventum  Diaboli  move  away  from  the  depressive  black  metal  elements  of  previous  releases  as  well  as  taking  the  occult  themes  of  earlier  releases  and  going  into  more  of  an  atmospheric  black  metal  direction.  The  production  sounds  very  raw  and  heavy  while  the  lyrics  cover  the  presence  of  the  Devil  and  Witchcraft  in  medieval  times  and  how  Christianity  used  their  god  to  punish  and  fool  people  back  then.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  another  great  sounding  album  form  Adventum  Diaboli  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  atmospheric  occult  black  metal,  you  should  check  out  this  recording.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Against  His  Light"  "Suffering  From  Gods  Plagues"  and  "In  The  Pursuit  of  The  Necromancer".  8/5  out  of  10.

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Adventum Diaboli/Blackheart/2018 Full Length Review

  Greece's  Adventum  Diaboli  have  returned  with  a  new  recording  which  is  also  done  in  a  depressive  style  of  black  metal  and  this  is  a  review of  their  self  released  2018  album  "Blackheart".

  Clean  playing  starts  off  the album  along  with  some  programmed  beats  and melodic  yet  atmospheric  guitar  leads  while  the  vocals  are  mostly  depressive  black  metal  screams  as  well  as  the  riffs  also  bringing  in  a  great  amount  of  melody  and  they  also  bring  in  a  few  instrumental  tracks.

  A  great  amount  of  depressive  melodies  can  also  be  heard  in  the  guitar  riffing  while  keyboards  when  they  are  utilized  bring  in  elements  of  ambient  onto  the  recording   along  with  some  songs  also  bringing  in  acoustic  guitars,  all  of  the  music  sticks  to  either  a  slow  or  mid  paced  direction  and  they  close  the  album  with  a  cover  of  Nocturnal  Depression's  "Her  Ghost  Haunts  These  Walls".

  Adventum  Diaboli  continue  the  depressive  style  of  black  metal  that  was  on  their  previous  release,  the  production  sounds  very  dark  and  raw  while  the  lyrics  cover  depressive  and  suicidal themes.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  another  great  sounding  album  from  Adventum  Diaboli  and  if  you  are  a  fan  o  depressive  black  metal,  you  should  check  out  this  recording.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Humans  Is  The  Plague  And  Suicide  Is  The  Cure"  "A  Kiss  In  The  Snow"  "Everybody  Dies  Alone  And  Forgotten"  and  "A  Hanging  Corpse  In  The  Forest".  8  out  of  10.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yNIM8L2c2M

Adventum Diaboli/I Walk In Solitude/2017 Full Length Review

  Greece's  Adventum  Diaboli  have  returned  with  a  new  recording  that  focuses  less  on  the  occult  side  of  previous  material  and  goes  for  more  of  a  depressive  side  of  black  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  released  2017  album  "I  Walk  In  Solitude".

  Nature  orientated  soundscapes  start  off  the  album  along  with  some  atmospheric  synths  and  after  awhile  clean  guitars  are  added  onto  the  recording  which  also leads  up  to  a  heavier  direction  along  with  some  depressive  cries  being  utilized  in  the  background  and  a  great  portion  of  the  tracks  are  very  long  and  epic  in  length.

  Vocals  are  mostly  high  pitched  depressive  black  metal  screams  and  they  also  bring  in  a  few instrumental  tracks  while  also  adding  in  elements  of  ambient  at  times  and  some  tracks  also  bring  in  a  decent  amount  of  acoustic  guitars  and  as  the  album  progresses  the  riffs  start  utilizing  more  melody  while  a  later  song  adds  in  a  small  amount  of  spoken  word  parts  and  when  guitar  leads  are  used  briefly  they  are  done  in  a  very  melodic  fashion  and  all  of  the  songs  stick  to  either  a  slow  or  mid  paced  musical  direction.

  Adventum  Diaboli  change  their  sound  around  a  bit  on  this  recording  and  goes  for  more  of  a  straight  forward  depressive  black  metal style  this  time  around,  the  production  sounds  very  dark  and  raw  while  the  lyrics  cover  depressive  themes.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  another  great  sounding  recording  from  Adventum  Diaboli  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  depressive  black  metal,  you  should  check  out  this  album.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "I  Walk  Into  Solitude"  "Endless  Anxiety  Trip"  and  "The  Lethal  Dose(Goodbye)".  8  out  of  10. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Xxs5Aiuu8

Adventum Diaboli/Rise Of The Pagans/2013 Full Length Review

  Adventum  Diaboli  are  a  band  from  Greece  that  has  been featured  before  in  this  zine  with  a  musical  style  that  mixes  old  school  occult  black  metal  with  depressive  black  metal  along  with  a  touch  of  paganism  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  released  2013  album  "Rise  Of  the  Pagans".

  Dark  sounding  synths  mark  the  beginning  of  the  album  and  a  minute  later tribal  sounding  drums  start  coming  into  the  music  and  a  minute  later  melodic  black  metal  guitar  riffs  and  grim  screams  make  their  way  into  the  music  and  mix  in  with  the  drums  and  synths,  then  the  music  goes  for  more  of  a  depressive  and  old  school  black  metal  direction.

    As  the  album  progresses  death  metal  growls  are  added  into  certain  sections  of  the  music  and  the  album  starts  incorporating  more  atmospheric  elements  as  well  as  some  spoken  word  parts  in  certain  sections  of  the  recording  and  after  awhile  the  music  starts  going  for  more  of  an  early  90's  black  metal  direction  that  sticks  more  to  a  mid  paced  direction  while  also  having  a  very  dark  and  raw  sound  to  it  and  the  drums  at  times  while  speed  up  to  add  more  of  a  primal  feeling  to  the  recording.  

  Once  we  get  more  into  the  album  acoustic  guitars  that  utilize  a  great  amount  of  finger  picking  as  well  as  being  used  on  a  couple  of  songs  are  added  into  the  recording  and  enhance  the  darkness  this  album  possesses  and  then  goes  into  some  hateful  black  metal  sounds  as  well  as  mixing  in  guitar  leads  and  they  album  starts  adding  in  a  ritualistic  quality  and  towards  the  end  synths  make  a  return  to  one  song  and  bring  back  in  the  depressive  and  atmospheric  elements  as  well  as  bringing  in  shamanistic  elements  to  the  last  song.

  Once  of  the  main  strengths  this  album  has  is  that  every  song  stands  out  and  they  all  have  a  different  sound  while  remaining  true  to  old  school  black  metal  and  this  album  displays  this  band  has  a  great  knowledge  of  old  school  black  metal.

  Song  lyrics  cover  Paganism,  Greek  Mythology  and  Occultism  as  well  as  having  one  song  being  written  in  Greek,  while  the  production  has  a  very  dark,  raw  and  old  school  sound  to  it  with  the  bass  guitars  being  mixed  down  low  in  the  mix  as  well  as  some  of  the  songs  being  long  and  epic  in  length.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  another  great  sounding  recording  from  Adventum  Diaboli  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  depressive  and  old  school  black  metal,  you should  check  out  this  album.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Transylvanian  Wind"  Medieval  Pagan  Rites"  and  "Eis  Arews  Dokska".  RECOMMENDED  BUY.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvgQ9pOVZ3o

Adventum Diaboli Interview

 1. Can you give us an update on what is going on with the band these days?

First of all we are glad that your great site took an interview from our band. So, Adventum Diaboli has so far produced two full length albums, a split and a demo and now we are on recording and mixing our third album Rise Of The Pagans. We hope that by the end of this year the album will be ready for sale! However, except of our studio work our band rearranges its basic line up. We (Panas –drums and Leviathan –guitars) the basic members try to insure our basic line up, but more details later in our official facebook page Adventum Diaboli. That is not the happiest thing for us but we also try to be devoted to our third album preparation! 

2.How would you describe the musical sound that has been on the albums, demo and split and also how does each release differ from each other?

‘’I told the producer, give me the worst microphone you have…We didn’t do anything to make the drum sound quality better…Then we used a tiny Marshall amplifier for the guitars..’’ these are some words of one of the fathers of old school black metal in the documentary ‘’Until the light takes us’’ , Varg Vikernes. Another great personality of the genre in the same documentary, Fenriz, says that Black Metal should sound old, raw and cold.  We totally agree with these sayings of our inspirators. We manage to create an occult atmospheric low-quality sound that reminds memories from the past, gives images from the Underworld and provokes cold thrills to the listeners body. In one word, we try to spread old school Black Metal to Greece. 

  For the second scale, our first album Lies of the Priest covers totally satanic and mainly anti-christian themes, it is powerful and of course our first work publiced! The second album Luciferium speaks mainly about occultism, Satanism and generally about spiritualism. Here our music becomes more ambient, adopts a depressive character and the melodic synths play a main role in the whole project. Now the demo follows the first album concept as we recorded that after that (before Luciferium) and the split contains songs from Luciferium; the guy from Darkehl is a friend of ours and decided to spread our interest there! Now on the third album we expand to paganistic themes, mythology and pantheon, while the music keeps its ambient, melodic and low tempo elements. 

3.The lyrics on the recordings have cover Paganism, Satanism, Occultism and Anti Christian topics can you tell us a little bit more about your interest in these topics?

Well, as we grew older we were seeing that Christianity, the ‘’official’’ religion had nothing to offer to us. We saw everyone on the one hand preaching about Christianity and on the other hand put their hands in ‘’mud’’, that means they were corrupted. Many of them were priests. Then we got angry about that- this was not Christianity. People should learn the true meaning of this religion. So we started this project to show them their enemy, Lucifer, and his powers. In addition, Christianity was the religion that buried the ancient Greek spirit; on every ancient temple Christians built a church. A bit similar story to Norway, the hometown  of black metal. Finally, we had the interest to regenerate the ancient Greek traditions and we will do it with paganistic lyrical themes. 

4.Has the band done any live shows or is this strictly a studio project?

Our band life is only a year which is a short period of time. However, the absence of time and preparation is not the reason we didn’t do a live show neither is that we stay only at studio. We have programmed a live in our small town but the community was so harsh towards us. I would say we suffered religious-social racism!!!!! We promise although that no other programmed live will be canceled and we will get our asses in front of people really soon!!!!

5.Recently, you put out a split with Darkhel, what are your thoughts on the other band that participated on the album?

The one man band Darkehl is really close to us in a friendly way. He has the same thoughts and ideas with us so we decided to join our wrath together in the name of Black Metal. We think Darkehl is a really prominent guy for the genre. However, now is really interested in the Gore genre, aka Gore Noise.

6.Currently you are unsigned, are you looking for a label or have received any interest?

Now we are unsigned. However, some guys suggested us to take our CD album Luciferium and release it as a tape to their sites. These are Infernal Kommando and Depressive Illusions. Go to theri site and buy it! Thank these guys. Look, we wouldn’t say no to a record company, but even in the far future we want to keep our original musical expression with no one’s interference whatever the cost is…

7.On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your music by fans of black metal?

Fortunately, these two companies helped us spread our music worldwide. As we see by the likes on our Facebook page, people like our stuff. Many Scandinavians liked our page and that is a major point for us. These know our music, our purpose, they can understand everything even the quality. So people that know about this genre comments positively on us!!! We try to do our best for you amazing guys!! \m/ Of course there are these who don’t have a mere fucking clue and don’t give a shit about our stuff! (most of them are Greeks) Always, of course, are these Greeks who help us a lot in any way and by any means!!!   

 8.Are there any other musical projects besides this band?  

Not at all. We are fully dedicated to our Black Metal Adventum Diaboli project. The drummer Panas had a thrash metal band, but now only Adventum fucking Diaboli!!! \m/ 

9.What direction do you see your music heading into on future releases?

We hope that our releases will get more and more in the future of course with the help of our supporters. We are optimistic cause we carry a lot of passion about music generally and black metal more specifically. Besides, we gather some ideas already about our fourth album, which will step the fields of Depressive Suicidal Black Metal, ambient and blackgaze genres. We also epect to be closers to our fans by playing often on the stage! 

10.What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your music and also what are you listening to nowadays?

Of course our major influences are the fathers, the music revolutioners, cause Black Metal is revolution, the creators of this genre, the first Norwegian black metal bands Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, Gorgoroth, Satyricon…Also other black metal bands-revolutioners such as Venom and Celtic Frost. The catalog of our black metal ispirators is endless (Urgehal, Xasthur, Thy light, Thy Antichrist, Old, Power from hell  and more), everything that supports Old School Black Metal with raw, old and cold sound. Also there are some important Hellenic Black Metal bands like Unholy Ritual and Kawir. Apart from that we really like and listen today death metal bands with brutal music and lyrics, like Deicide and Cannibal Corpse, and everything else against the flawless sound production, such as grindcore bands Terrorizer, Napalm Death. 

11.Outside of music what are some of your interests?

Apart from music, we really like sports. Specifically, football and martial arts. In addition, we have our studies at the university and other members their jobs. The most important is that we love gathering as Friends; that keeps the band closer. 

12.Any final words or thoughts before we wrap up this interview?

Thank you very much about this full topic interview and about your amazing review – keep supporting new black metal bands dude!! Plus, thanks to all of our fans for their help and support! We trully need you and we hope to get more!!! And everyone remember: once you go black you never go back!!! Keep the black metal fire alive guys!!    We wait you on our pages soon!!! \m/ \m/ \m/                                

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Adventum Diaboli/Luciferium/2013 CD Review

  Adventum  Diaboli  are  a  band  from  Greece  that  plays  a  form  of  occult black  metal  that  mixes  old  school  with  depressive  and  ambient  elements  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  released  2013  album  "Luciferium".

  "Burn  The Church"  which  is  also  the  first  song  on  the  album  opens  up  with  ritualistic  synths  and  a  minute  alter  black  metal  guitar  riffs  kick  in  along  with  drums  and  a  few  seconds  alter  grim  screams  start  coming  into  the  song  and  the  music  sticks  to  a  mid  paced  direction  and  after  a  few  minutes  classical  music style  synths  come  in  for  a  few  seconds  before  reverting  back  to  its  normal  pace.

  "Regenerationis  Diaboli"  starts  up  with  heavy  guitars  and  drums  along  with  some  avant  garde  style  synths  and  a  few  seconds  later  grim  black  metal  vocals  are  added  into  the  song  and  the  song  is  mostly  mid  paced  to  slow.

  "Right  Hand  Of  The  Anti  God"  begins  with  slow and  heavy  old  school  black  metal  guitar  riffs  and  drums  and  a  few  seconds  alter  vocals  start  to  kick  in  as  well  as  the  drums  utilizing  more  power  with  the  song  not  being  either  fast  or  slow  and  towards  the  end  there  is  a  brief  use  of  guitar  leads.

  "2nd  Legion"  opens  up  with  some  voices  in  the  background  before  adding  in  some  guitar  riffs,  drums  and  grim  vocals  as  well  as going  into  a  mid  paced  direction  and  halfway through  the  song t here  is  a  brief  use  of  melodic  guitar  leads  and  spoken  word  parts.

  'Goat  Of  Mendes"  comes  in  with  background  noises  and  a  few  seconds  later  black  metal  screams,  guitars  and  drums  kick  in  and  the  riffing  is  very  raw  and  old  school  in  sound  and  at  time s the  drums  speed  up  for  a  few  seconds.

  'Bestial  Flame"  makes  it  way  in  with  some  evil  laughter  and  a  few  seconds  later  depressive  black  metal  guitar  riffs, d rums  and  grim  vocals  kick  in  and  the  goes  into  a  mid  paced  direction  and  after  a  couple  of  minutes  dark  sounding  melodies  start  coming  out  of  the  guitar  before  reverting  back  to  its  normal  pace.

  "Black  Holocaust"  is  introduced  with  grim  black  metal s creams  and  slow  yet  dark  guitar  riffing  as  well  as  background  whispers  and  a  minute  alter  drums  kick  in  and  the  song  goes  into  an  old  school  black  metal  direction.

  "Medusa's  Heart  Outro"  closes  the  album  with  classical  music  style  synths  and  halfway  through  tribal  style  drums  are  added  in

  Song  lyrics  cover  Satanism,  Occultism  and  Anti  Christian  themes,  while  the  production  has    has  a  very  dark,  raw and  primitive  sound  to  it.

  In  my  opinion  Adventum  Diaboli  are  a  very  great  sounding  occult  black  metal  band  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  musical  genre,  you  should  check  out  this  album.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Burn  The Church"  "Right  Hand  Of  The  Anti  God"  and  "Black  Holocaust".  RECOMMENDED  BUY.

  You  can  also  listen  to  the album  here   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4HaG9hy_HY&list=PL4KvbXkZypDWGQrDtcKGx6io8FXaERbqJ