A new level for Blackened Thrash metal.
For a lot of people (including me) Blackened thrash metal is a form of Black Metal rather than being just “satanic thrash”. That being said the point is that normally, bands that play this type of music are very rough and raw. But the case here is a little bit different as Sarcoptes new EP deal with the same thing but with a much better production than their peers and that speaks volumes about the position of the band inside the style at the moment. I don’t care if it sounds off the wall, but if that was even a style, they’d been playing melodic blackened thrash metal. The disc has only 2 songs so let’s get into them:
The Vertigo Soul is more direct and assertive in their approach of the genre, fast guitars, excellent musicianship and composition, really (AHEM) hardcore in tempo, and of curse one has that kind of satanic feeling that the fans of the style are after when they chose to hear this type of music, it’s all there, nothing fancy, but with best quality.
La Moria Grandissima is a 10-minute deal, and works rather differently: while not asymmetric from the original purpose, because the same is there, the repetitiveness of black metal are more latent here and of course, being a long song, it OUGHT to have different parts even if the phrases are long, and the difference here is the guitar solos which are not simple atonal bullshit, they are very well played and melodic and there is a subtle, but well placed keyboard working on background that is unheard of.
Plague Hymns announces what is in store for Sarcoptes and judging for the music we have here it’s something infernal and with quality at the same time. I just can’t wait for the new album to appear on the horizon.
Plague Hymns is out now on Transcending Obscurity Records.
Rating: 8.0/10
Roderick Totentanz
Dark Souls United 