Many
of you may be familiar with Dante’s “Inferno”, which is the
first part of the 3-part epic poem, Divine
Comedy, written in
the 14th
century. With exquisite and savory detail, Dante describes an
excursion through the 9 circles of hell. Whether or not you know this
masterpiece, fear not because Unholy Desecration have taken the
liberty of supplying the world with a worthy soundtrack to the epic
work that drags you through hell and back multiple times.
There was
no official soundtrack to “Inferno”, but Unholy Desecration have
just recently changed that with their “hellishly wonderful” (how
is that for an oxymoron!) 3-song Born
of Evil EP released
through Confused Records. Unholy Desecration have captured an aura of
raw hellfire in this recording that is hard to come by. This
south-Texas quintet have teased the extreme music scene with a
snippet of what is to come. Each track is furious, raw and savage.
The raw, anguished vocals take me back to the true days of black
metal back when Dark Throne’s A
Blaze in the Northern Sky
and Bathory’s Under
the Sign of the Black Mark
were making constant rounds on my turntable. But wait…track 2,
“Born of Evil” takes us back to the Human
Waste days of
Suffocation as vocalist Fremitus Diaboli takes the take down several
notches to death metal glory. There is some really impressive vocal
ranges and power that, to me, highlight this EP. Arnold “Blast”
endlessly pounds his defenseless drums to a pulp and nicely keeps the
music at a frantic pace but not without nice tempo changes that
emphasize the darkness in some parts of the compositions. “Blades
of War” closes out this impressive debut disc. The memorable
riffing leaves a taste of heavenly foulness in your mouth that leaves
you brazenly salivating for more. The song structures flow nicely,
and although each song is blistering fast, these are more than just
non-stop, 100 miles an hour songs; this is also flavorful catchiness
that leaves your head pounding even after you’ve stopped listening
because you suddenly realize that too much evilness may be too much
if taken in all at once. Luckily, Unholy Desecration have slowly
eased us in to their fiery world with a brief, 14-minute EP, but be
ready because their next offering may not be so considerate of our
thresholds. I hope these guys keep their raw, unpolished sound in
their next offering because this aura does a lot for this music. It’s
like when Possessed recorded Seven
Churches; it was
magic. If Possessed were to re-record Seven
Churches today, I
seriously doubt it would measure up to the original because that
magic at that given moment could not be duplicated. This is what
Unholy Desecration have done; they captured a certain aura and sound
that adds to the recording.
Hey can you add get Unholy Desecration's "Born of Evil" today at www.confusedrecords.com and on all digital media platforms worldwide.
Jaime
Perez is a founding member and drummer of McAllen Texas’ longest
running death metal band, Severance. He has been a part of the Texas
metal scene since the early ’80s and continues to be a global metal
ambassador to this day. His music collection; both cds and vinyl,
tallies in at roughly 1500 physical copies and includes a variety of
musical genres, although a vast majority is metal. In addition to
churning out metal, Jaime is also a fiction writer and author of “The
Vacant Space” and the award-winning novels, “A Risky Yet
Worthwhile Endeavor” and “Through You”.
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