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With its thematic focus on a ritual of exorcism from ancient Rome, the first of these demos, “Lemuralia,” demonstrated that the band not only worshipped the sound of mid-90s Mediterranean black metal, but also the ancient history and literature of the region that helped set the stage for its birth many centuries before. Within a few months, Cemetery Lights released its second demo, “The Church on the Island,” which offered a somewhat more expanded glimpse of the full palette of the band’s inspirations and increased anticipation for what its first full-length would bring. Approximately one year later, this debut album is realized with the release of “The Underworld” on Nuclear War Now! Productions. Composed of eight songs written primarily between 2009 and 2014, one would not necessarily expect “The Underworld” to take a step significantly beyond the two aforementioned demos, given that the tracks from these were composed and recorded at the same time. 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Another significant way in which “The Underworld” differs substantially from the preceding demos is with the inclusion of live percussion. Having been a band consisting of a single member since the beginning, it was more convenient to use programmed percussion on the demos. For the album, on the other hand, additional effort was expended to learn how to properly record live drums, which was done along with all other instrumentation in the band’s private studio. The result is one which adds to the dramatic effect of the grandiose songwriting and contrasts sharply with the more sterile sound of programmed percussion. 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The project’s country of origin was hostile to metal music at the time, with the prevailing Iron Curtain political climate essentially banning western music from entering the Eastern Bloc. Metalheads of the era had to rely on dubbed tapes smuggled from the west, which were not in wide circulation. After trading a few Uriah Heap tapes for his first guitar, the Piff played in a number of bands in the nascent Sofia metal scene throughout the 80s. The Piff soon learned to play the drums as well, inspired by a negative experience he had working with a particularly unreliable drummer. This mastery of several instruments would prove crucial to his later work as EXHUMATOR. An early lineup featuring the Piff and guitarist Malkiya (aka Dobrin Filipov) would choose the moniker DICTATOR in 1989. Their first performance was at a Bulgarian metal festival in February 1990. The group was well-received, being one of the first extreme metal groups from Bulgaria. 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While there are few extant artistic representations of Melqart, and many details have been lost to time, he is believed to be the antecedent to the Greek half-deity and hero Herakles (known to the Romans as Hercules), whose cult supplanted Melqart’s as the Greek empire ascended to global prominence. The nexus between these two figures served as the inspiration for Caixão’s sophomore album, “Herakles\/Melqart.” In particular, Herakles’ 12 labors—assigned as punishment after Hera, jealous of the son born from Zeus’s infidelity, sent Herakles into a fit of insanity during which he murdered his wife and children—illustrate the manner in which Herakles’s persona subsumed attributes of Melqart as the reach of the Greek empire swept out across the Phoenician world. JG devotes a track to each of the 12 labors, from the Nemean Lion and the Hydra of Lerna, to the Augean stables, the Cretan Bull, and Cerberus. Indeed, one can hear when listening to this album how each track captures the essence of the corresponding Heraklean task. In doing so, Caixão demonstrates how within the black metal genre, perhaps more than any other form of music, mystical emanations of the ancient past converge with the nihilistic currents of the present day, forming a cultural through-line and highlighting the accretion of ideals that have, for millennia, undergirded the development of Western Civilization. Musically speaking, with this album, JG continues to expand the frontier of Caixão’s sonic palette, incorporating miscellaneous sound sources, such as field recordings and traditional folk instruments. But Caixão’s core identity remains unchanged—a syncretic amalgam of styles deftly combined to produce a distinctive strain of Iberian black metal. 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Though sparse, Wrathprayer’s output over the last 15 years has been among the most consistently impressive. Formed in 2006, the duo of guitarist and vocalist God of Torment and drummer Pestifer Fides released their demo in 2009 and, three years later, their debut full-length, The Sun of Moloch, co-released by NWN! and R. Forster’s Ross Bay Cult label. With that album, Wrathprayer, along with bands like Teitanblood and Necros Christos, helped usher in a wave of esoteric Black\/Death metal—a novel synthesis of the two genres, infusing the plodding and intricate brutality of death metal with the occult disposition of black metal. Their last recordings were completed in 2014 but remained unreleased until they appeared on the 2017 split release with fellow Chileans Force of Darkness. After lying dormant for a decade, Wrathprayer now reemerge with a malevolent masterpiece entitled Enkoimeterion or the Enlivening of the Spiritual Heirs to Amalek, which finds the band advancing further toward the dark horizon of their sound. Written in 2019-2020 and recorded live in the studio two years later, Enkoimeterion, their second full-length release, showcases masterful composition and enhanced sound quality, far surpassing the band’s earlier work. The title refers to the abaton, or sleep chamber, located within the healing temples dedicated to the Greek god Asclepius, who visited the somnolent guests in their dreams to diagnose their illnesses and reveal the cures—a therapeutic approach to dreaming known as “incubation.” Wrathprayer’s invocation of such arcane concepts is neither haphazard nor ironic; their lyrics offer philosophical and metaphysical insight woven together with poetic fervor. Those inclined can pore over the body of lyrics presented here, untangling and deciphering the various themes, searching for the locus of meaning within. The music is likewise evocative and complex. After opening with a short symphonic excerpt from a work by the modern Chilean composer Prospero Bisquertt Prado, Wrathprayer descend into cavernous regions, immersed in a deep darkness illuminated by hallucinatory visions. Permeating the album is a striated network of bold labyrinthine riffs, sharp-edged and steeped in crimson, drawn taut across the roiling percussive frenzy of the drums. The six new tracks presented here coalesce into something greater, a composite whole that feels complete and expertly composed—an album that stands out amid the uninspired detritus produced in the last decade. As with Wrathprayer’s debut album, Enkoimeterion bears the imprimatur of one of the most visionary occult artists of the last century, Denis Forkas, whose cover art provides the final element, connecting the tripartite presentation of idea, imagery, and sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n- J. 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During this time, Abigail’s sound and themes have morphed to some degree, but their ability to successfully incorporate a consistent core of different influences has always remained. Whereas their earliest output afforded them status as one of the archetypal Japanese black metal bands, along with others like Sabbat and Sigh, later recordings exhibited a greater degree of speed metal, gritty street punk, and lyrics littered with sleazy sexual depravity.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\nWith their fifth studio album, “The Final Damnation,” hereby released once again under the banner of Nuclear War Now!, Abigail has returned to a noticeable extent to the evil sound of their earliest recordings by increasing the black metal dosage in their satanic vaginal worship cocktail, all the while managing to maintain the rawness of later recordings that has endeared them to a new legion of gutter-dwelling deviants. 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Although it was, as he put it, of “uneven quality,” it set the course, stylistically and thematically, for his second album, “Worlds and Worlds,” which followed two years later and more fully realized Svensson’s vision for the project. While bands like Voivod and Nocturnus were premised on science fiction themes, there were few, if any, black metal bands that drew upon similar concepts. Some of Svensson’s contemporaries such as Limbonic Art, Vulpecula, Circumventor, and a few others, had a celestial, atmospheric element to their music, but Oxiplegatz was much more fantastical, with lyrics depicting Earth’s demise, intergalactic exploration, and malevolent alien species. The cover was also a stark departure from the genre’s norms, featuring mid-1990s computer-generated art set against a white background. 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Although it was, as he put it, of “uneven quality,” it set the course, stylistically and thematically, for his second album, “Worlds and Worlds,” which followed two years later and more fully realized Svensson’s vision for the project. While bands like Voivod and Nocturnus were premised on science fiction themes, there were few, if any, black metal bands that drew upon similar concepts. Some of Svensson’s contemporaries such as Limbonic Art, Vulpecula, Circumventor, and a few others, had a celestial, atmospheric element to their music, but Oxiplegatz was much more fantastical, with lyrics depicting Earth’s demise, intergalactic exploration, and malevolent alien species. The cover was also a stark departure from the genre’s norms, featuring mid-1990s computer-generated art set against a white background. 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