Did you miss them? Hideous Divinity are back with an EP.
Entitled LV-426, it comes two years after the band’s fourth album, composed of Enrico Schettino (guitar, ex-Hour of Penance), Enrico « H. » Di Lorenzo (vocals), Giulio Galati (drums, Nanga Parbat, Nero di Marte), Stefano Franceschini (bass, Aborted) and Riccardo Benedini (guitar).
Illustrated by Collin Estrada and recorded/mixed/mastered as usual by Stefano Morabito (Black Therapy, Bloodtruth, Corpsefucking Art, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Decrepit Birth…), the band tackles this time to the second Alien movie from James Cameron. SF connoisseurs already recognized the reference, then Acheron, Stream of Woe, begins. A weighing and spatial ambience welcomes us before the band’s riffs strike. Between brutality and technicality, this sound with so perfect mix offers dissonance and violence, heaviness and mastery, whether it is into the rhythmic or in this piercing lead. Chestburst offers a totally raw strength caught by unleashed musicians, but enforced into a brutal art with as majestic as oppressive ambiences. The vocalist’s howlings go hand in hand those fast-paced riffs with sharp leads, then the band throws us to Delirium Trigger, a cover of the Progressive Metal band Coheed and Cambria. The song’s weighing ambience perfectly fits to the futuristic universe the band sticks to the EP, and allow them to close with a fix of violent, dark and catchy technicality, while welcoming Tommy “Brutal Keys” Bonnevialle (Deathawaits, Virulent Depravity) on keyboards.
Unsurprisingly, Hideous Divinity offers an obviously short but super powerful EP. LV-426’s theme is original, but it perfectly fits to this unfurling wave of violence and technicality the band masters.
95/100