It is time for Sepulcros to get out of the dark.
Created in Portugal, the band is composed of SB (vocals), NZ (guitar, Summon, Viles Vitae, Abominamentum), RT (guitar), AH (bass, Candura, Summon) and JS (drums, Summon) for Vazio, their first album.
Illustrated by the master Mariusz Lewandowski (Bell Witch, Eremit, Rogga Johansson, Jupiterian, Abigail Williams, Atramentus…), the band’s music promises to be heavy, oppressive and very dark. Involucro Oco show it thanks to an introduction made of whispers and mystical ambience before Vazio, the first song. Riffs are slow and haunting, but they immediately captivate us thanks to soaring melodies. The lumbering Doom/Death suddenly speeds up after some minutes, but is still thick and crushing, like on the morbid Marcha Funebre. The song picks the previous song’s smashing elements up, but add those penetrating tones into leads. About vocals, influences are anchored in an Old School Death Metal and a vicious Black Metal, that we sometimes find into those dark riffs. Same feeling for Magno Caos, a seizing and worrying song but so beautiful that we hardly can stand out of this unholy oppression. The atmosphere gets darker at every note and the band’s crushing sound chokes us before the final acceleration. Hecatombe begins with a soft clean-sounding riff before linking saturation to this melancholic melody. The band perfectly handles its dark and oppressive art, while adding some rageous grunts and cavernous howlings, before closing their album with Humana Vacuidade, a final sample that let us get out of their universe without brutal break.
Sepulcros gets out of nowhere, imposing an incredible sound. Vazio melts Melodic Doom/Death elements with Funeral Doom and Black Metal, for an impenetrable and captivating sound output.
90/100