DIABOLICAL MESSIAH - Satan Tottendemon Victory!!! (Proselytism Records - CD 2010)
The Chilean metal underground scene is
worldwide known for the fierceness and relentlessness, as well as the
aggression and primitiveness of the bands from there and I can truly say that
there are few, which I quite like. Thornafire, Atomic Aggressor, Magnanimus,
Totten Korps… I hope you know them. But few months ago I got a compilation CD
called “Tu Futuro…”, released by a young label Proselysism, and this
compilation presented me some more, younger, but even more violent and
incredibly rough metal from Chile, with such excellent bands as Demonic rage, Unaussprechlichen
Kulten, Communion, Atomicide and Diabolical Messiah. I was like “wow, those
bands are really crushing with their amazing, old school music!” and I was very
impressed by how dedicated to the underground values they all seem to be. I
obviously decided to get some of their releases, if I ever have a chance and
Diabolical Messiah’s “Satan Tottendemon Victory!!!” was the first one, which I
got. Ha, and I hope it’s not the last one from this band, as this album
definitely belongs to my favourite South American death metal releases, which I
have EVER heard and I am very stunned by the crushing sounds from it.
Style wise “Satan Tottendemon Victory!!!” is
nothing more or less, but pure, old school death metal. The band seems to be
combining some of the finest influences you can hope for, and so think of the
likes of Morbid Angel, Incantation, Immolation, Krisiun and other such cults,
all songs sounding incredibly evil and relentless. Definitely there’s something
unique in Diabolical Messiah music. I mean the way it sounds is just awesome
and it definitely is one of the heaviest death metal albums, which I have heard
recently. What I especially like about it is that it is almost constantly fast,
slaying with rather simple riffing, but the whole music sounds very massively
and brutal. It’s like an Incantation’s slow pieces were fastened up, if you
know what I mean. The atmosphere of the music is eerie, evil and dark as hell,
the whole sound is thick and I must underline how great is the production of “Satan
Tottendemon Victory!!!”, in case you would think that such an underground and
rough piece of music can (or should) only sound primitive – not at all,
Diabolical Messiah sounds just great. All in all, as I already said, I really
like the album. I guess the only small fault of it is the impression, which I
sometimes have and which is a feeling like I was listening to one or two songs
all the time, as the similarity between all of them, between the arrangements
and the riffs is very close and Diabolical Messiah never really tries to vary
their music too much, focusing on what they do best. But for the future I would
suggest maybe using some more of the slower parts (like the ending part of
“Sidarius”), something even more apocalyptic. “Satan Tottendemon Victory!!!”
sometimes miss that in my opinion, but from the other hand the fast playing,
which Diabolical Messiah does also doesn’t need more than just banging the
skull.
Ah, I must also underline how great work
Proselytism did for the release of “Satan Tottendemon Victory!!!”. This
definitely is one of the best released CD’s I have in my collection! It comes
in a foldout 7”EP cover, with four panels. While the front artwork may seem
slightly primitive and it’s not really the best drawing, which I’ve seen, the
rest of the layout looks great. I love the band’s photos, which are very old
school and very metal to the bone, exactly something what I would expect from
the South American death metal band, with a statue of Mary, corpse painted,
what looks fuckin blasphemous as hell! The CD comes also with the small poster
and the extra booklet with the Spanish translations of the lyrics. Hell, this
truly is killer and if all Proselytism releases look like that, then this must
be one of the best underground labels around at the time. So, remember to get “Satan
Tottendemon Victory!!!”, it’s limited to 1000 copies, so not many and it may
even be all sold out, but there will be also a vinyl version from Blood
Harvest… a must to have in the collection anyway!
Final rate: 75/100
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