Devathorn/Inferno/Zos Vel Thagiron/W.T.C Productions/2018 Split Album Review

  This  is  a  review  of  a  split  album  between  Greece's  Devathorn  and  Czech  Republic's  Inferno  called  "Zos  Vel  Thagiron"  which  will  be  released  in  December  by  W.T.C  Productions and  we  will  start  off  the  review  with  Devathorn  a  band  that  plays  an  occult  form  of  black  metal.

  Their  side  of  the  split  starts  out  with  a  very  ritualistic  sound  along  with  some  whispered  vocals  and  demonic  voices  before  going  into  a  heavier  direction  while  all  of  the  musical  instruments  have  a  very  powerful  sound  to t hem  along  with  some  angry  shouting  vocals  and  when  the  music  speeds  up  a  great  amount  of  tremolo  picking  and  blast  beats  can  be  heard  which  gives  the  songs  more  of  a  raw  feeling.

  When  guitar  solos  and  leads  are  utilized  they  are  done  in  a  very  melodic  style  while  the  riffs  also  add  in  a  great  amount  of  melody  along  with  the  songs  also  adding  in  a  great  mixture  of  slow. mid  paced  and  fast  parts  as  well  as  both  of  the  tracks  being  very  long  and  epic  in  length,  the  production  sounds  very  professional  while  the  lyrics  cover  chaos,  darkness,  death  and  occultism  themes.

  In  my  opinion  Devathorn  are  a  very  great  sounding  occult  black  metal  band  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  musical  genre,  you  should  check  out  their  side  of  the  split.  RECOMMENDED  TRACK  "Omphalos".

  Next  up  is  Inferno  who  return  with  their  satanic  form  of  occult  black  metal.

  Their  side  of  the  split  starts  out  with  some  clean  playing  while  spoken  word  parts  can  also  be  heard  briefly  before  going  into  a  heavier  direction  along  with  the  riffs  also  adding  in  a  decent  amount  of  melody  as  well as  the  first  track  being  very  long  and  epic  in  length  and  when  the  music  speeds  up  blast  beats  can  also  be  heard.

  When  tremolo  picking  is  utilized  it  gives  the  music  more  of  a  raw  feeling  while  the  songs  also  bring  in  a  great  mixture  of  slow,  mid  paced  and  fast  parts  along  with  all  of  the  musical  instruments  having  a  very  powerful  sound  to  them  and  keyboards  can  also  be  heard  briefly,  the  production  sounds  very  professional  while  the  lyrics  cover  Occultism  and Left  hand  Path  themes.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  another  great  sounding  recording  from  Inferno  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  occult  black  metal,  you  should  check  out  their  side  of  the  split.  RECOMMENDED  TRACK  "The  Solitary  Immersion  Into  Autarchic  Silence".

  In  conclusion  I feel  this  is  a  very  great  sounding  split  and  would  recommend  it  to  all  fans  of  occult  black  metal.  8  out  of  10.

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Devathorn/108658
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Inferno/11670#band_tab_discography



     

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Inferno/Omniabsence Filled By His Greatness/Agonia Records/2013 CD Review

  Inferno  are  a  band  from  the  Czech  Republic  that  has  been  featured  before  in  this  zine  with  a  musical  style  I  would  describe  as  being   occult  black  metal  but  with  some  more  modern  and  psychedelic  elements  on  this  release  and  this  is  a  review  of  their 2013  album  "Omniabsence  Filled  By  His  Greatness"  which  was  released  by  Agonia  Records.

  "Pervasion" begins  with  some  distorted  sounds  and  dark  psychedelic  elements  and  serves as  an  intro  for  the  album.

  'The  Firstborn  From  Murk"  begins  with  some  blast  beats,  fast,  raw  and  primitive  sounding  black  metal  guitar  riffs  along  with  some  distorted  melodies  which  also  lead  to  some  deep  growls  and  high  pitched  screams  being  thrown  into  the  music  and  after  a  couple of  minutes  the  music  slows  down  a  little  bit  and  adds  in  some  clean  elements  before  reverting  back  to  the  fast  and  heavy  sound  along  with  some  guitar  leads  being  utilized  and  midway  through  the  song  the  music  goes  into  a  slower  direction  again  while  being  a  little  bit  heavier  this  time around  but  also  does  return  to  the  faster  parts  at times  as well  as  mixing in  some  psychedelic  sounds  and  then  going  into a  softer  direction  and  adding  in  some  synths  and  after  awhile you  can  hear  some spoken word  parts  being utilized  in  the  background  before  returning  back  to  a  heavier  sound.

  "The  Funeral  Of  Existence"  begins  with  some  heavy  and  melodic  guitar  riffs  along  with  some  drums  before  adding  in  some  experimental  elements  then t he  music  goes  more  into  a  black'n'roll  direction  and  then  the  music  speeds  up  and  also  mixes  in  some  brutal  sounding  melodies  which  lead  to  some  grim  black  metal  vocals  kicking  in  and  after  awhile  the  music  slows  down  a  bit  while  also  remaining  heavy  at  the  same  time  and  a  few  minutes  later  the  music  starts  adding  in  some  cleaner  and  atmospheric  elements  before reverting  back  to  its  fast  and  primitive  roots.

 "Revelations  Through  The  Void"  begins  with  some  fast  and  heavy  black  metal  guitar  riffs  along  with some  blast  beats and  then  the  grim  vocals  kick in  as  well  as  some  psych  elements  and  you  can  also  hear  some  melody  being  utilized  in  the  guitar  riffing  which  also  leads  up  to  some  powerful  sounding  bass  guitars  when  the  music  slows  down  and  goes  into  a  more  atmospheric  direction  and  a  few  seconds  later  the  music  starts  getting  fast  again  and  then  switching  back and  forth  between  slow  and  fast  parts.

  'The  Heretical  Fissure  Of  The  Most  Distant  End" begins  with  some  melodic  drone sounds  and  then  some  synths and  psychedelic  sounds  make  their  way  into  the  song  which  also  leads up to some  drum  beats  and  background  chanting  before  adding  in  some  heavy  guitar  and  bass  riffs  and  then the  music  gets  alot  more  faster  along  with  some  brutal  sounding  blast  beats  and  melodic  guitar  riffing  but  the  music  gets  the  clean  and  psychedelic  elements  around  while  also  adding  in  some  deep  grim  black  metal  vocals  and  after  a  couple  of  minutes  the  music  slows  down  for  awhile,  as  the  song  moves  on  there  is  a  brief  use  of  guitar  leads  along  with  th e music  getting  fast  again  shortly  after  that.

  "Metastasis  Of  Realistic  Visions"  begins  with  some  melodic  guitar  riffs,  psychedelic  sounds  and  drums  and  then  some  deep  black  metal  vocals  make  their  way  into  the  song  before  going  into  a  faster  direction  along with  some  brutal  sounding  blast  beats  and  grim  screams  as  well  as  some  melodic  guitar  riffing  which  also  mix  in some  technical  elements  as  time  goes  on  by  before  going into  a  mid  paced  and  slower  direction  which  alos  leads  to t he  bass  guitars  sounding  more  powerful.

  Song  lyrics  cover  darkness,  metaphysical  and  occultism  themes,  while  the  production  has  a  very  strong,  powerful,  heavy  and  dark  sound  where  you  can  for  the  most  part  hear  all  of  the  musical  instruments  that  are  present  on  this  recording along  with  the  songs  being  very  long  and  epic  in  length.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  another  great  sounding  album from  Inferno  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  black  metal  with  psychedelic  elements,  you  should  check  out  this  recording.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "The  Firstborn  From  Murk"  "The  Heretical  Fissure  Of  The  Most  Distant  End".  RECOMMENDED  BUY.    

http://youtu.be/nHkdLcW1fZk   

Inferno Interview

1. Can you tell us a little bit about the band and what inspired you to play the form of the music that you play?
Hi, it was very simple. We are big fans of metal music for a lot of years, music is important part of our lifes. We were 15 years old when we began to feel UG scene. We became big fans of all the old thrash, black and death metal bands, record´s collectors and true musical fanatics. We wanted to be in that machinery, to be a part of this thought of great united fight for filling musical yearning, so we decided to found the band. We were fascinated by essences of death, darkness, occultism, old horror movies,… and black metal was reasoned genre and way that we wanted to take. Of course, we were very satisfied by wave of norwegian black metal bands at that time, so all of these circumstances led us to founding the beast INFERNO.

2. How would you describe the music of Inferno?
I think that our present production is very different from our older stuff in some points. Nowadays I can say the musical face has crystallized and actual form and structure is the closest to us. From my opinion we can designate present INFERNO as apocalyptic black metal.

3. Where did you come up with the idea for the band name?
There´s nothing special and mystic. We were 15 years old when we founded the band, so we didn´t think about the name very much. We wanted name that would describe black metal music and everything connected with that exactly and simply, name with essence of deepness, occultism, spiritism etc…INFERNO has everything like that. Admittedly the name was found unoriginal in the course of time and a lot of bands with similar name exist over the world but we have this name for 13 years. We didn´t want to change the name because we released a lot of stuff and of course, to the name relates specific nostalgia.

4. How would you describe your live show and what are some of the best gigs that you have played so far?
We played a lot of concerts in Europe. Nice gigs were always in Serbia, Germany, Spain … it´s difficult to say what gig was the best or the worst. I always say that there aren´t really bad gigs, maybe sometimes the gig happens better, sometimes worse. Also what do you mean exactly if you say the best gig? The best gig in connection with acceptance of fans, or in connection with technical and instrumental circumstances. It´s question…I think that all gigs we played had its magic and geist….its darkness. Our concerts are full of blood and blasphemy!

5. Are there any plans for a U.S tour?
We´d like to play in US. If some offer comes, certainly we close a deal. We hope that Mexico tour 2010 will become reality. We will see what future brings.

6. How would you describe the musical progress over the years?
I think we are better in technical and instrumental way now, as regards quality of ideas too. For over 13 years we pick up a lot of experiences. Every record comes with specific moment of creation, it´s interception of specific mood, depth, status and feeling of that time. So, some early records are a little bit different, nowadays I think we work without restraint and more systematically as well.

7. What direction do you see the music heading into during the future?

We´d like to compose music with massive feeling and more technically, songs will be more aggressive and they will contain space for showing instrumental skills of musicians. Maybe it´s possible to say that songs will be more spirited. Now it´s hard to say how it will end up because music is some kind of internal feeling, it´s mark of time of creation and everything depend on status of that interior. Also spiritual thoughts very influences direction what we will come to and what direction will specific frag-mental songs come to as well. Now we start to working on new songs, so let it be a surprise.

8. What releases have you put out so far?
Uff, that´s a lot of stuff….We have 5 studio albums that were released on CD/LP, roughly 10 7"EP, mainly it´s split Ep´s and some standalone Ep´s, roughly 3 live CD´s and a lot of demotapes…

9. Are you aware of the Inferno in Norway?
Yes, I´m. At one time there were some bands with same or similar name but nowadays there´s not so many such bands, so that´s good for us. By the way, this bands have good stuff and also Inferno fest has my respect and admiration.

10. What are your main influences music wise or non music wise?
Our music has a lot of influences. We try to catch internal mood of our interiors, it means to catch our feelings and darkness inside all of us and then transform it to musical way and record it. We don´t try to compose technical music with over 100% scientific arrangement purposely….We record spontaneity of specific moment more than artificial composition. Inside us proceed a lot of battles spiritual and life-time and they are also influences that are inspiration for us as well as opposition to system, its regulations and conception of moral christian world.

11. What are you listening to nowadays and what are some good bands or releases that you would recommend?
Recently I really often listen to records from Merrimack, Craft, Troll, last Katharsis – Four Reich, Funeral Mist, Triumphator, Behexen,…there´s a lot of good records, it depends on mood and taste.

12. How would you describe the bands approach to Paganism, Satansim or Occultism?
I´m not sure if I understand the question well….how to describe all these bands. If you mean some spiritual principles or things connected with image etc….Actually, it doesn´t matter, I think we agree on that all these bands are formed by people who try to search internal power and energy in this rotting world through music and attitudes.

13. What are some good films or books that you would recommend?
Films and books…well, it ´s hard to say, recently I don´t have any time to reading books or watching films. Frankly speaking, about films I think there´s nothing special, everything stinks of hollywood´s propaganda, kitsch and happy-ends. If I want to watch film, I search some low-budget and art films. As regards books, I like a lot of different topics from occult literature to novels and science-fiction. Recently I´ve read some items from Bukowski, Orwell,…

14. How would you describe the metal scene in your country, I know that some classic bands such as Master's Hammer and Maniac Butcher came from there?
Yes, these two bands have cult status in our country and they are very acclaimed in the world. Metal scene in Czech republic isn´t very big and it isn´t very interesting as well as compared to other scenes. I don´t mean only music but also relationships, organisation, support….there´s same shit like anywhere else. There´s some good bands but there is missing support from labels and fans from abroad…we´ll see, I hope czech scene comes through in the future more than in present. Recently I´m skeptic.

15. Any final words?
Thanks for space in your zine. If you were interested in our new album Black Devotion, contact us!

16. Thanks for the interview!
Thanks as well. War continues!

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