![efermus – …sem retorno [demo]](https://www.vm-underground.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Efermus-–-…Sem-Retorno-Demo-cover.jpg "Efermus – …Sem Retorno [Demo]")
Just a few months after the release of the band’s first full-length album, ‘A Ira Do Tempo’ (Altare Productions), Efermus returns with something new. This time it is a one-track demo clocking in just over 10 minutes and which sounds way more noisy than the Lo-Fi full-length album.
Whereas ‘A Ira Do Tempo’ was mainly characterized by its slow pace and impenetrable raw production in which depressive riffs and icy vocals took the lead role, this new demo tape seems to harken back a bit more to older demo material from the band. With an approach that is significantly heavier on the noisy side of the band, in fact, ‘…Sem Retorno’ is a downright full-on exercise in Black/Noise, this the least accessible Efermus recording to date. With bleak and hateful swirling darkness as its core, the demo feels not only the least accessible, it is also the most difficult one to actually analyse. The music’s individual elements are hard to distinguish from each other, but still feel rather coherent. To draw some parallels for some necessary “musical” context, I could say that ‘…Sem Retorno’ mostly resembles the ‘Casus Luciferi’-era of Abruptum as well Beherit’s ‘Messe De Morts’.
This is a demo is only fodder for the true Black/Noise enthusiast, therefore it is not a surprise that Altare Productions chose to release it in a fitting amount of 33 hand-numbered copies.
Altare Productions
- Country: Portugal
- Style: Black Metal
- Links: Homepage, Youtube
