The ADE legion returns!
Fabivs (guitar), Nerva (guitar), Diocletianvs (vocals, Deviation), Gabriele Vellucci (bass, Abscendent) and Atticvs (drums, Hideous Divinity, Shaula, Voltumna) sign up with Time to Kill Records to celebrate Supplicium, their fifth album.
We open the gates of the city with Ave Dis Pater, the first composition where ancient Roman influences are immediately present, but which doesn’t forget to offer a massive brutal Death Metal to complement them. The federating choruses and Folk touches are perfect for live performance, as are the jerky rhythms of Burnt Before Gods, which also reveals much more technical and furious passages. The leads are also imbued with this complexity, as on Ad Bestias! which focuses its riffs on the aggressive, ultra-fast side, coupled with catchy patterns and orchestrations. Then comes Let There Be Oblivion which blends Old School tones with the preceding elements at a steady pace, allowing the sharp harmonics to emerge, before Vinum picks up the pace again to continue along the path of raw rage, incorporating a certain groove on certain passages, notably the final. Patibula follows with some very catchy, almost festive elements beneath the obvious violence, and then Quartered By Chariots stomps us with all its might, with a touch of melancholy. The heady additions sometimes keep the overpowering rage in check, but it’s mainly the rage that guides us through the avalanche of blows followed by Oderint Dum Metuant, where the samples are mainly influenced by Symphonic Death. Back to brutality on From Fault To Disfigurement, which uses percussion to frame its jerky riffs on which the audience is sure to break its neck, then the final acceleration leads into Taedium Vivere, which gives us a moment’s respite before once again aligning its imposing rhythm section that doesn’t hesitate to combine all influences to end the album on its climax.
Already well known in the Death Metal landscape, ADE stands out not only for its original themes, but also for its violent roots. Supplicium is an extremely effective album that doesn’t hesitate to combine brutality and exotic samples.
85/100