IMPETUS MALIGNUM - When Darkness Devours The Light

                                           
Sound of Charge/2007

7 songs: 27 mins

Here comes the first band from Brazil in Yargla webzine: Impetus Malignum, who plays a melodic black/death metal, using corpsepaints and spikes. As far as I know about Brazilian bands, I always noticed they are very focused on a rather “occult” side, such as Murder Rape, Mystifier...

Here, no keyboards are used and the musical direction is turned on variations of melodies played in a dark way. In fact, this cd was re-issued by Sound Of Charge in 2007. The line up on this cd is from 2004/2005 if I am right, and the only remaining member, Disarmoneaous (vocals/guitars), gave a new birth to Impetus Malignum.

The tracks are rather cool, following that melodic line with blast beats used in every track. The whole is very dark and the band makes me think of some early 90s bands such as Sacramentum, Dissection but also the first album of Mörk Gryning. “Impure Metamorphosis” is my favorite song in this demo. The voice sounds like Eisregen and the alternation between black and death metal vocals are enjoyable. This song is played in a mid tempo way and has a really obscure core.

To end with this review, the only wrong point I will have to admit on a personal point of view is that the cd tends to be a bit linear, several riffs souning like some others. Anyway, it is really not bad stuff. Let’s see with the future releases to come what this hateful horde will bring us.

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