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Info
- Band(s): Feeble Deity
- Label(s): Keepers Of The Flame
- Release Format(s): Cassette, Demo
- Release Year: 2024
- Review Date: January 26, 2025
- Author(s): FelixS
Last year’s ‘Compendium Opus’ was Feeble Deity’s first release that was spread slightly wider than the previously released limited cassette tapes. That compilation, released on cassette tape by Forbidden Sonority and on CD by the revered Dark Adversary Productions, brought together many of those earlier demos and was therefore not only a excellent introduction to the band, but it was also a fitting way to close off the first chapter in the band’s career. ‘Unholy Dissonance’ is the Feeble Deity’s first recording since the release of ‘Compendium Opus’ and while these older tracks already showed much potential, these new songs are definitely of another magnitude.
While not much has changed in the musical formula, the duo has really progressed by leaps and bounds in terms of suspenseful song writing and the forging of an authentic 90’s atmosphere. It is exactly that atmosphere that is the deal maker on this, rather short, 2-track demo. In just over eleven minutes we are presented with some of the most alluring Black Metal that I have heard on a demo tape in the last few months. And, for a change, the hypnotising ambiance is not sustained by keyboards, but it is the outstanding riffs that do the job.
With the necessary dynamics in terms of changes in tempo and sufficient variety of riffs, the two tracks sound way more mature than anything the band has recorded before. Yet, the overall tempo is modest, adding much to the haunting spirit of the music. Subsequently the music creeps up close to the Black Metal of the late 90’s and early 00’s. Resemblances with bands as Judas Iscariot, Weltmacht, Moonblood and early Nargaroth are easily made.
This new demo tape, released by the Mexican Keepers Of The Flame label, is definitely recommendable to anyone with a knack and unquenchable thirst for those glorious riff-driven, provocative and engaging days of Black Metal from some quarter century ago.
Keepers Of The Flame
- Country: Mexico
- Style: Black Metal
- Links: Homepage, Instagram