SACRIPHYX The Western Front LP

SACRIPHYX The Western Front 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:
  Now in stock on vinyl, and includes a large full-color foldout poster.
   Formed in 2007, the Australian death metal duo Sacriphyx has slowly produced a number of excellent splits with the likes of Stargazer and Resuscitator, each featuring the band's impassioned combination of classic death metal gnarl and powerful guitar melodies with an interesting thematic focus on the history of Australian warfare (primarily from the early half of the twentieth century), a topic that most definitely gives their material a unique feel. Made up of drummer Neil Dyer (also of Lovecraftian death metal throwbacks Innsmouth and ghastly doom metallers Murkrat) and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Till (Misery's Omen), Sacriphyx finally delivered first full-length album earlier this year, The Western Front, an eight song concept record that revolves around the Australian troops that lost their lives in the European theater of the first World War. Each song is woven around the band's detailed narrative, telling the stories of key figures and events from the war, and evoking scenes of tragedy, despair and valor in war in a contemplative manner that's a far cry from the sort of bestial/black/kill-crazy ruminations on warfare that we're more used to hearing from the sorts of bands that Nuclear War Now! is known for. This is moody, epically moving music, filled with a deep sense of melancholy and emotion that lingers with the listener well after the album is over.
   Sacriphyx set up their brooding atmosphere with the slow, ringing chords that introduce the title track. Once "Buried Behind The Lines" kicks in, though, it brings with it a killer old-school death metal attack, combining guttural vocals and massively catchy riffing with a reverb-soaked production that has a classic feel. The album mostly sticks to a rocking mid-tempo pace, the guitar parts are sweeping and complex and slightly proggy, but a blackened thrash element runs through almost all of the riffs on the heavier songs, as does a classic 80's-era heavy metal sensibility that you can hear and feel in the emotional guitar leads and melodies that shine through Sacriphyx's pummeling death-thrash. And tracks like "Without A Trace" are almost ballad-like, slower pieces of mournful soaring metal with some of the most impassioned soloing I've heard from a band of this ilk. There's also the awesome thrash of "The Crawling Horror", probably the heaviest song on Western Front, a blast of barbaric iron-clad deathcrush that's followed by "Damn Passchendaele Ridge " where they whip out the acoustic guitars for a grim, achingly pretty folk ballad. You can see where Sacriphyx has drawn some of the influence from the dank, billowing black atmospheres found in the classic Greek black metal of Rotting Christ, Thou Art Lord and Varathron, but that sound is diffused into something rooted in a much older tradition, that blackness seeping into the band's dark, almost bluesy harmonies, with traces of even classic metal like Manilla Road and classic doom surfacing throughout the album. Definitely different, The Western Front delivers some of the catchiest death metal I've heard in ages, and has fast turned in to one of my favorite releases from NWN so far this year.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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