Daemonarch - Hermeticum
This is a side project of Moonspell that, according to the little sticker on the front, explores their darker side. In other words, it’s Moonspell’s Wolfheart album mixed with more than a little Bathory. As a matter of fact, they even cover a Bathory song. This is Black Metal in the traditional sense as it is Metal music with Satanic lyrics. Face it, with songs like “Hymn to Lucifer,” “Lex Talionis,” “Incubus” and “The Seventh Deamonarch,” you don’t really have to guess where they’re coming from. This is kind of primitive, older sounding in more than one way, but with some modernisms included. The problem I had with it was that it sounds contrived. They seek to regress from their Gothic tendencies and go back toward their demo days. If you want to hear the genuine article, their demo or 7-inch should have been repressed instead. On the whole, this isn’t a bad album but as I mentioned, it sounds a tad fake, if you ask me.
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