SACRIPHYX / RESUSCITATOR Peninsula Of Graves / Black Mass Of Pazzuzu LP

SACRIPHYX / RESUSCITATOR Peninsula Of Graves / Black Mass Of Pazzuzu LP

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(Nuclear War Now! Productions)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  Along with that fantastic debut album that we just got in from Australian blackened battlefield chroniclers Sacriphyx, we've also picked up the band's 2010 split LP with the obscure California black/death metal outfit Resuscitator, in stock here at C-Blast for the first time ever. I've grooved on Resuscitator's strange, cavernous death metal before starting with that old album Iniciation that the band released in the infamous Wild Rags in the early 90s, their earlier stuff offering some vaguely experimental, discordant, doom-laden blackness that for some reason seems to have been largely overlooked by the dungeon-crawling legions. Even though the bands share little in common musically aside from having a common influence from Greek black metal bands like Rotting Christ and Varathron, both deliver some seriously heavy atmospheric blackness that compliment one another well.
   Up first is Sacriphyx, with their rather unique death/thrash attack. As with their other records, this comes enshrouded in visions of early twentieth century warfare and the role that Australian troops played on the stage of the great World Wars. These tales of battlefield valor and tragedy are delivered via four songs of their cavernous, catchy war-obsessed death/thrash, whose sometimes poignant lyrics sometimes reading like lines from "Charge Of The Light Brigade". The music is a killer mix of guttural vocals and eerie melodic leads, the crunchy anthemic riffs on songs like "Quinn's Post" revealing an obvious influence of classic blackened thrash metal, but the band also makes use of more complex rhythms and dramatic arrangements that make for a fairly unique sound, with a vaguely proggy tinge to some of this stuff. They also manage to slip into some beautifully despondent doom on "Shell Shock"; when Sacriphyx slow it down like that, they produce some amazingly moving metallic mournfulness. There are some soaring, almost Maiden-esque solos that also pop up, and the cavernous crush of "Peninsula Of Graves" comes flecked with bits of blackened blast, eventually leading into more of the band's mournful doom and some haunting sung vocals, which contrast with the other, harsher vocals that echo through the depths.
   On the other side, we get three songs from the oubliette-lurking Satanic black/doom/death metallers Resuscitator, all recorded back in 1994 but never released before now. This stuff picks up right where Resuscitator left off with their Iniciation LP. Beginning with an intro of ghoulish vocals and horror-movie synthesizers, the band rips into the raw low-fi deathchug of "Resuscitator", shifting between thrashier, jagged death metal and more bestial blasting violence. The vocals are incredibly foul, a mix of unintelligible guttural rasps that are mixed way out in front of the recording, and backing rat-like shrieks buried further in the background. This is heavy, haunting mutant black/death laced with some killer early Rotting Christ vibes, draped in dissonant atmosphere and blasts of cadaverous chaos, the sound smeared with those terrifically old-school keyboards that add a strange sepulchral vibe to the songs.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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