![unbegotten / velo misere – silencio y demencia [split]](https://www.vm-underground.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Unbegotten-Velo-Misere-Silencio-y-demencia-Split-cover.jpg "Unbegotten / Velo Misere – Silencio y demencia [Split]")
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- Band(s): Unbegotten, Velo Misere
- Label(s): Altare Productions, Nomad Snakepit Productions
- Release Format(s): 12" vinyl, Split
- Release Year: 2025
- Review Date: June 8, 2025
- Author(s): Seth Nekromancer
‘Silencio y Demencia’ is the epithet used to invoke this conspiracy of Unbegotten and Velo Misere, two hordes belonging to the Spanish Black Metal underground.
The split was released on vinyl by the Nomad Snakepit Productions label in conjunction with Altare Productions, a label known for releasing blasphemous underground works of raw Black Metal. The cover art was designed by BMS Illustrations, who have accustomed us to this type of aberrations and dreamlike darkness.
Side A was left to Unbegotten, who attacked mercilessly at the first click, displaying great musical intensity, speed, and well-defined execution with precise timing. This band takes us through a lost paradise of dissonances, and I would say they flirt with the sound and compositional style characteristic of Orthodox Black Metal bands. These dissonances give it a depth and hypnotic atmosphere between variations in tempo, but always returning to intensity, as demonstrated in attack II, where they crowned the track’s epilogue with gloomy chants and praises. The closing track doesn’t denote much difference from the previous two but with more variations in rhythms and timing, well carried by the drums. Halfway through, they create an atmosphere of somber mystery to give way to the mid-tempo that will consume the rest of the breath until the end of this side of the conspiracy that has revealed the face of the Unborn.
The B side was in charge of Velo Misere, who destroy the veil with ‘En la Niebla’ on this side of the abysmal void. Velo Misere demonstrates greater strength and perhaps greater volume than Unbegotten (possibly it remains to the perception of each person who listens to the split). This song has bestial riffs with memorable cadences; the voices are almost howls, projecting themselves as a creeping sensation of confinement in some hidden tomb in the night mist. While Unbegotten is Black Metal with elements of orthodox and raw Black Metal, Velo Misere is Orthodox Black Metal in all the rules. It has elements that remind me of the powerful Nightbringer and obviously the Nidrosians buried under the catacombs of Trondheim. The composition is plagued with several riffs in dark tremolos, arpeggiated passages that create an oppressive atmosphere, which chews the seconds until ‘En las Cenizas.’ To close, they drag us towards that uninhabited place where the formula remains intact with intense display, and I now think that this has been a better damn track, the one selected to close the uroboric circle.
A great idea to bring together these two hordes of Black Metal in a split. Everything was brutally achieved in terms of sound, presentation, musical balance, projected ideological perception, and artistic concept. Although in Velo Misere we know who the members are, and I know several of them from their work with Aversio Humanitatis and Eterna Penumbra, in Unbegotten it is not revealed who is in the band. But I sense that they must be musicians from that BM circle who frequently record and mix at The Empty Hall Studio belonging to S.D. Perhaps that is why Unbegotten pays homage to a part of the split’s name, i.e., ‘Silence’ and uses it as a secret banner of power (as I have said in several reviews, I love this secrecy and occultism). On the other hand, it is nice to hear works by Venezuelans who emigrated to other latitudes and who make Black Metal in this more introspective and nihilistic variant!
Magna Coniuratio!
Altare Productions
- Country: Portugal
- Style: Black Metal
- Links: Homepage, Youtube
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Nomad Snakepit Productions
- Country: Netherlands
- Style: Black Metal, Doom Metal, Death Metal
- Links: Facebook, Instagram, Bandcamp
