Atrament is this generation's answer to the classic
and unforgiving Swedish and British style d-beat crust, Norwegian black metal, and
90's Gothenburg death metal.
"Filled to the brim with chunky, catchy riffs, frontman Mattia Alagna’s signature
snarl, and, of course, my beloved d-beat, Atrament might not be reinventing the
wheel, but they can craft a da mn fine one." – Invisible Oranges
Conceptually Atrament's music is built upon a nightmarish landscape of hallucinating
ruin, a wretched sonic world in which humanity is rejected as a whole and a tomb of
ash and radioactive fallout is summoned to encase it and devour it forever. While remaining true to the roots of UK anarcho-punk and
90’s Scandinavian-branded black and death metal, Atrament's punishing, grim and embittered songs blend d-beat crust, black metal
and death metal with seamless ferocity.
Birthed in the gutters of West Oakland in the fall of 2014, Atrament is a blackened d-beat/crust band that features current and former
members of Moral Void, Black September, Necrot and Abstracter. The band coalesced around a shared love of its members for bands
like Doom, Wolfpack, Amebix, Bolt Thrower and Napalm Death, and has evolved to be a conduit for some of the most abject,
war-injected, bestial and barbaric aural desecration imaginable.
