Where the Light Fades has been around for five years in the shadows of the underground, and ‘Into the Depths of the Black Creek’ is their first EP after several demos, a live album, and a single album. This EP opens its chest directly to the music, without any kind of introduction that preludes the work (something that recurs and is expected in my head when I see this type of cover art).
Returning to the leitmotiv of this review, the music created by Sergio M and CIA bears that mark that for several years has been burned into the foreheads of many hordes that emerged from Canada, Forteresse, Monarque, Délétère, etc. Compositional intensity with more than acceptable drum work without many embellishments but in some passages a certain technicality is shown, fast riffs with an aura of emotional coldness and triumphalism that are embedded in the memory just as in ‘Sands of Time’ which is the backbone of the work creating that balance of the triumvirate of themes that unleashed in this release, I think that any regular Black Metal listener when seeing the cover art and the country of origin intuits what they are going to find and in this case intuition wins.
15 minutes and a few seconds are enough to be what I visualize as the prelude to a full length and crowning the history, concept and work of the band!
