Sarkrista are a band from Germany that has had music reviewed before in this zine and plays a satanic form of black metal and this is a review of their 2021 album "Sworn To Profound Heresy" which will be released in March by Purity Through Fire.
A very dark and ritualistic synth orientated intro starts off the album along with some Gregorian chants and choirs before going into a very fast and raw musical direction which also utilizes a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats while the vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams.
The music also adds in a good amount of German and Finnish influences while all of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them. The songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with a great portion of the tracks also being very long and epic in length.
Some of the music also goes back to the 90's second wave era along with the riffs also adding in a small amount of dark sounding melodies at times as well as one of the tracks also introducing a brief use of spoken word parts onto the recording and as the album progresses clean playing and pianos can also be heard briefly, there is also some session work with members of Nocturnal Depression, Curse Upon A Prayer and Atimateria. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover Satanism, Occultism and Blasphemy themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Sarkrista and if you are a fan of satanic black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Sworn To Profound Heresy" "The Chosen Ones Of Satan" and "A Whisper From Forgotten Coffins". 8 out of 10.
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hey dude, Sarkrista is from Germany, not Finland
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No Sarkrista is from Germany and Finland too
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