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The Deathless Void is a Dutch band primarily formed by the guitarist and mastermind of The Secret (who remembers their harmful "Solve Et Coagula?") and the group makes its debut (preceded by an EP) with this "The Voluptuous Fire Of Sin" released in 2024 by Iron Bonehead Productions.
We are faced with a celestial black metal, a product of the Transalpine school (Deathspell Omega) but also a descendant of bands with colder and vaguely electronic attributes like the Norwegian Thorns. I would describe it as a psychedelic and glacial album in its black coldness.
"Psychedelic Vortex" opens the acts with an electronic tribalism, creating a glacial riffing with icy and luciferian vocals. It continues with "Vortex Climax," a five-minute track where the black dissonances of the new path are truly fascinating thanks also to an excellent work of the synths. The blast beats are really cold and indeed should be considered as an abyssal death metal, unlimited in its proud orthodoxy referencing the genre it belongs to ("The Shattered Realms Of Man Become The Abyss" and the infernal and possessed "The Ecstasy Of Sin"), a brief interlude with piano and operatic female voice ("Iside") also uses electronics and synths to then restart with the assaulting black metal of "Burning Shapes Without Form," cold and glacial like never before.
"Crossing The Threshold" is the longest track of the lot (seven minutes) and starts with a hinted riffing offspring of an ancestral tribalism. In the initial part, it stays on medium tempos, then suddenly speeds up with heart-pounding guitars, perverse and delirious vocals that follow ultraterrestrial and at times psychedelic melodic lines, as dark as the stormy sea with which this "The Voluptuous Fire Of Sin" is imbued.
"Purple Triad" and "Curse Upon You" close the album with bursts of pure, harsh, and fierce black metal. In particular, "Curse Upon You" is a true ride made of acidic and malignant black metal that does not leave indifferent and will make supporters of the black flame jump for joy.
An album that delivers a mature, occult, and mysterious work at the same time, to be replayed several times to be internalized in its fullness of content.
In thirty-eight minutes of duration, "The Voluptuous Fire Of Sin" is an album with real punch even at the production level, my wholehearted recommendation is to make it yours.
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