Fossilization offers us its first release.
Created in Brazil by V (guitar/bass/vocals, Jupiterian, ex-The Black Coffins) and P (drums, Jupiterian, Riffcoven, ex-Corporate Death), the band records He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten, its first EP, delivered in collaboration with Transylvanian Tapes and Everlasting Spew Records.
The first impression we have, with this melting of Death, Doom and Black Metal, is that dissonance is the main element. Neanderthal Tombs offers some heavy and oppressive melancholy, a thick rhythmic and above all a huge fix of blackness served by cavernous howlings and weighing hits. The hooking melting doesn’t hesitate to suddenly accelerate thanks to a powerful blast, just like Blight Cathedral, of which languor morphs to massive aggression. Caronte continues in those dark tones and this morbid universe, while the outro offers us a bit more softness while staying in the band’s universe. He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten, the eponymous track, reconnects with pure aggressiveness and heaviness with fast and greasy riffs, but sharp harmonics come to create contrast in this desolated landscape. Once again, the outro offers more heady and softer tones, then A Deplorable Epoch closes the EP the same way it began, between languor and oppression.
Fossilization’s universe can be found halfway between extreme styles. He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten offers five dark, dissonant, oppressant and violent songs, that sometimes know to let place to more soaring tones.
85/100