There’s always a darker side of the Black and Doom Metal genre and the two of them are mixed well together to go into a colder much haunting beat inside the cavernous place. And from the moment I listened to Disharmonic’s Magiche Arti E Oscuri Deliri, in which the title translates to Magical Arts and Dark Delusions, it is for me, one of the scariest albums I’ve listened to from start to finish.
The band formed eighteen
years ago in Italy by drummer Lord Daniel Omungus and guitarist Sir Robert
Baal. The concept for Disharmonic is to bring in something that was really
sulphurous. Disharmonic released two albums, two demos, and one EP. And their
new album released this year, is a combination and reminiscent of Paul Chain,
Goblin, Devil Doll, and Jacula.
It is almost as if it’s a
score for a horror film that both Dario Argento and Alejandro Jodorowsky worked
together and almost wished they used a score like this that is off the wall,
sinister, and avant-garde. It features some snarling spoken-word dialogue along with
operatic, and calming vocals on the album that is almost speaking through at times through an echoplex by giving it a terrifying view of
what is to come in a darker way.
Effects filling the halls as
if you as a listener are inside an insane asylum filled with the nightmares and
terrors that realizing that there’s no hope of turning back to getting out alive.
The music itself fits the concept very well. The Guitars give it the heavy, dark, psych
and doomy atmosphere that resembles Tony Iommi and Mercyful Fate coming at you like a terrifying beast ready to rein terror.
You could imagine the
essence of Black Sabbath’s first sole self-titled debut album along with
Antonius Rex music flowing in parts of the compositions that almost could have
been a part of the sessions of Tardo Pede
in Magiam Versus and Disharmonic are capturing those vibes to show the
touches of Rex’s sound as a tribute and homage. While this was my introduction
to the music of Disharmonic, this wasn’t an easy album to listen to from
beginning, middle, and end.
However, this is a very
interesting and yet terrifying album I’ve listened to. And Disharmonic have really
shown a lot of the ideas in their sound, that they really gave me a chill and shiver
down my spine. And since listening to the album around my third or fourth time, I have to admit this will really give you goose bumps from
the moment you put it on and knowing they have done something ominous, raw, and
powerful to give you a nightmare for the rest of eternity.
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