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MALVENTO / ABIGAIL / MALAURIU - SPLIT ALBUM

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(By Phil Coursed, 07-08-2021)
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Genre: Black/Thrash Metal

Label: Staring Into Darkness, 2021 (Split album)

Country: Italy / Japan

This split album by Malvento from Campania (Italy), Malauriu from Sicily (still Italy) and the Japanese band Abigail presents itself as one of the most particular and interesting releases of the extreme underground scene of the recent months. A deep work that has the merit of enclosing different dark sides of the Black Metal and the most extreme Thrash. The ghostly blacksters Malvento begin the macabre dance through an exorcising intro that evokes, disturbs, enchants and with its spoken vocal lines, paves the way to the pounding IL SIGNORE DEL DESERTO which, thanks to the lyrics in Italian, shows how the black flame can burn in the fertile south of Italy. Nefastus' guitar is amazingly sharp, Zin's voice is dark and Incinerator's drumming is incessant. The slower rhythm is redefined with first class outbursts (really impactful) as in the following NEL SEME IL GERME, where everything is even faster and tighter in a Black Metal typical of the Norwegian beginnings of the genre.

The extreme assumes, in the following tracks, different but equally obscure connotations thanks to the primordial Thrash/Street Metal played by Abigail, that in GODS OF KHAOS ENDLESS WAR are able to reach an extraordinary violent execution as in BLOODY YOUR LOVELY PUSSY where the incendiary guitar solo it's worth to be mentioned. The adjective "Street" can easily be used to describe Yasuyuki's wonderfully raw voice as well as Jero's razor-forging guitar that Youhei's drums supremely support.

Malauriu, a band devoted to an uncompromising Black Metal, have the task of closing this split album and doing it in the best possible way. EVIL LUST is a unique, extreme, malefic track where Schizoid's work on guitars, Venor's vocals, S.T. on bass and Morg on drums combines in a darkness broken and then stitched back up by sudden changes of rhythm in which the singer's growl has the peculiarity of adapting and to effectively support. The following DISTRUTTORE (Nerorgasmo's cover) musically follows the line of the previous track, particularly vivid is the cantato in Italian which adds even more aggressiveness to the piece. Phenomenal!

A distressing melody (but it is a virtue) is the outro of the split made by Malauriu, bells toll reminding us that the work has come to an end but we are sure that soon we will hear more about the bands that have contributed to the realization of this interesting and sulphurous work.

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