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Info
- Band(s): Luciferian Ceremony
- Label(s): Fallen Temple
- Release Format(s): Cassette, Demo
- Release Year: 2023
- Review Date: June 28, 2023
- Author(s): VincentP
With a clear statement of hate against all Pseudo “Black metal” Luciferian Ceremony certainly isn’t out to make friends. Obviously, deeper down is their pure contempt for the commercialism of Black Metal at the cost of the true and primitive occult and satanic values that once drove the scene. This goes both thematically, as well as musically, as a dedication of their ‘Goatlust Ritual’ demo to the recently deceased Jacek “Venom” Szczepański of the early 90’s Polish Black Metal band Xantotol says an awful lot about what to expect musically.
Take Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer, Samael, add a dose of keyboards and you get the primitive first wave sound of Luciferian Ceremony. The influences of Xantotol are clear, but you could just as well describe them as Archgoat with a lot less pace and a lot more keyboards, or compare them to more recent bands like Moenen of Xezbeth. Filthy and bass heavy with growls instead of screams, laden with eerie keys and samples, this 18-minute demo is crude and to the point. In particular the two shorter tracks ‘In Profundis Inferni’ and ‘Heavenly Slaughter’ are excellent, with just about the right hint of catchiness. The title track is much lengthier, weighing in at over 9 minutes and feels like it once consisted of two songs that were merged together by addition of sound samples. By no means a bad track, but perhaps a bit of trimming or just making it two songs would have made more sense. Then again, it’s a demo where an experiment here or there should be lauded. And it’s pretty much the only experimentation going on, as the majority of the material is as regressive as it gets. And that’s exactly where the charm of ‘Goatlust Ritual’ lies, in its uncensored and uncompromising worship of the first wave of Black Metal.
Fallen Temple
- Country: Poland
- Style: Black Metal, Death Metal, Thrash Metal
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