Death Vanish are a solo project from Connecticut that has had music reviewed before in this zine and plays a very primitive and old school style of black metal and this is a review of his 2023 ep "Hermitic Fire" which will be released in March by Eternal Death.
Marching sounds start off the ep before going into a heavier musical direction while the vocals are mostly high pitched black metal s creams. Spoken word parts can also be heard at times along with the keyboards also adding in touches of deathrock when they are introduced into the music and the ep is heavily rooted in t he early 90's era.
One of the tracks is also very long and epic in length while the vocals also bring in a more grim atmosphere in certain sections of the recording. On some of the tracks the music also goes into more of a ritualistic direction along with all of the songs also sticking to a slow or mid tempo musical direction, blast beats and fast playing can also be heard briefly.
On this recording Death Vanish plays a style of black metal that is very primitive and shows some influences of the more slower and ritualistic material from Profantica and Beherit as well as adding in elements of deathrock to create a sound of his own. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover Occultism, Hermeticism and Magick themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Death Vanish and if you are a fan of promotive black metal, you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "From Down There" and "Doctrine Of A beast". 8 out of 10.
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