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I know that metal is not among the favorite genres of Debaser's audience, at least the majority of it, and I've read an ungenerous and banal definition regarding the group I am about to review.
In any case, one must be brave, and if you like an album, why not write or talk about it?
The Alessandrian Mortuary Drape do not hail from Alexandria, Egypt, but in a certain sense, it's as if they are inhabitants of those lands. A strong interest in the occult (necromancy but not only) and a marked propensity for mystery make our beloved minstrels honorary citizens of the capital of Egyptian esotericism.
Their musical secret? Evoking the dark sound of Goblin and Jacula, the heavy metal of Mercyful Fate, and the sonic extremism of Celtic Frost, Bathory, and early Morbid Angel.
Oh, if you're not interested, you can safely move on to the next review!
For those who stayed, however, I highly recommend listening to their official debut released in 1994. The band had been active since '86 (!), but until the nineties, they only released demos and EPs.
With this first full-length, terrible cover aside, you enter the heart of a magical, haunted, and terribly fascinating night. Tracks like "Tregenda (Dance In Shroud)", "Funeral Chant", "13th Way", and the formidable "Medium Mortem" offer us an Italian and Mediterranean path to Black Metal. A Black Metal light years away from the blind Scandinavian fury, from certain cheap Satanism and the pedestrian imitation of more renowned names. Mortuary Drape knows how to be original, and they've shown it with this and other works. Not many, it's true, but as they say... "better a few but good."
From the godfathers of tricolor horror metal, Death SS (obligatory touch), the necromantic Mortuary Drape draws without fear, especially concerning the iconographic aspect and live scenography. But, I repeat, this is not about plagiarism or a lack of ideas.
Listen to "All The Witches Dances" and you’ll agree with me. That's all for now.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
03 Astral Bewitchment (05:48)
We'll take your soul, we'll take your mind
We'll take your fate under the ground
He has begun, unleashed his wrath
Astral bewitchment
Nightmare...
All presents conjured, explosive force and lethal current
Soon you will be fallen into the hand of a sinister doom
The man ruled by four elements - he has been cursed
Tying up power leading to intertness
Day after day, you'll fall in endless nightmare...
Vampyres that lived in astral world bringer of bad luck
The moon is king for the attack - destructive strain
Interior sight becomes aware - a cry of terror
Tying up power leading to intertness
Day after day, you'll fall in endless nightmare...
There's no more time - astral bewitchment
Falling you in trapped - astral bewitchment
Astral bewitchment
Astral bewitchment
But now your will belong to them - they'll get you
The way is lost in mists of time and populated
Shadows that live in have taken him in a sad delirium...
Nightmare...
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