ORDEM SATANICA - Perpetuum Satanas (12" LP on Black Vinyl)
Portugal | Black
Detailed Description
The name Ordem Satanica should be more than familiar to those who follow the crimes of Signal Rex, or indeed the Portuguese black metal underground, which has risen to international prominence in the past decade. In that time, the shadowy collective have released a flurry of recordings, first as demos and splits and then the monumental Monte de Lua debut album in 2017 - each one grimmer and more ghastly, more hypnotizing and harrowing, as the one that preceded it - firmly establishing Ordem Satanica as modern-day atavists and furthering the infamy of their Aldebaran Circle (Trono Alem Morte, Occelensbrig, Voemmr, and Degredo et. al.). And while it had been four long years since an album arrived - and two years since their split with Adytum, all via Signal Rex - Ordem Satanica slipped by the full-length Perpetuum Satanas at the very end of 2022 on tape. Now that fourth full-length fittingly finds release on vinyl to carry forward its malignant march. Indeed, Ordem Satanica are locating an elusive magick here where the harsh & harrowing soundfield of olde sees something like refinement, rendering their bewitching black metal in its most penetrating form. Whereas "refinement" in many bands' hands spells a death knell, in Ordem Satanica's, it's ever so subtle and only intuitive - an effortless grasp at primordial energies that are then harnessed into spiraling screeds of hauntingly tuneful obsidian. Verily, the band's always-understated melodicism takes on more prominence across Perpetuum Satanas, giving their no-less-demonic pulse an exceptionally ethereal quality: the gutters boil over, and the fumes rise like wraiths to torment the chaste and pure. It is with no hyperbole, then, to state this is arguably Ordem Satanica's finest work.
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