Pestis Cultus are a band from Australia that plays a satanic form of black metal and this is a review of their self titled album which will be released in 2021 by Signal Rex.
A horror soundtrack orientated intro stats off the album before going into a heavier musical direction while the vocals are mostly grim yet high pitched sounding black metal screams. When the music speeds up a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can be heard which also gives the songs more of a raw feeling.
Melodies are also added into some of the guitar riffing while the songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. A lot of the music is also very heavily rooted in the 90's era along with some of the songs also showing a slight death metal influence at times as well as both the intro and outro being done by Mortiis.
Demonic growls can also be heard briefly and as the album progresses and one of the songs also introduces clean playing onto the recording, when guitar leads are utilized briefly they are also done in a very chaotic yet dark and melodic style., all of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover Satanism, Occultism and Darkness themes.
In my opinion Pestis Cultus are a very great sounding raw and necro satanic black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Into The Endless Darkness" "Black Tongue Hymn" and "To The Old Ruins". 8 out of 10.
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