This Spanish Black Metal duet was established in 2006, released a 3-song demo called "Tongue of the Moribund" in 2008 and now they are back with a 2-song EP. The twelve minutes of this seven inch are specifically about the relaxing types of music. "Carved in Paroxysmal Void" starts the EP with icy Nordic riffs and unheard screams of the undead. The 7 minutes long piece has lots of mood changes, which mostly eradiate some kind of deep depression and despair, even lengthy parts of acoustics included there to calm down for a while. It is a pretty well-built and arranged song if you ask me. On the other side we have "Frigid Caress of Ivy" a more melody-oriented tune with lots of acoustic parts again, but with all the melancholy left. The actual duo, which is D. Bloodless (guitars, bass & vocals) and Damastor (drums), knows very well how to create cold yet desperate atmospheres within the frames of the Black Metal genre. Darkly recommended stuff!!!

I deeply guess this EP was meant to be kind of teaser before the long-awaited full-length album. Three years passed since the release of "Womb of Lilithu", so the time is more than right for unleashing the new record, isn't it? The 7" contains a brand new track called "Pesta" (Side A) and a re-recorded demo song, namely "Slow Asphyxiation" (Side B). "Pesta" starts with a typical NECROPHOBIC hint that is about mysterious acoustic passages, which slowly turn into the ordinary melodies of black & death. Structure-wise this composition reminded me pretty much the "Death to All" era that has to do maximally with the return of the shredding pair: Sebastian Ramstedt and Johan Bergebäck. Glad they are back! Sebastian wrote the music of "Pesta", while Alex served the lyrics to it. Can't say they did something jaw dropping there, however it's a decent and solid NECROPHOBIC cut accompanied by dark & monumental elements we get used to hear on each of their records. But what impressed me the most in "Pesta" is the sinister yet shamanic speech in the middle of the song and the afterwards coming solo, executed in the indistinguishable Ramstedt style! That was pure evil to me! It was also great to notice the comeback of Anders Strokirk to the necro-unit. His vocals on "The Nocturnal Silence" (1993) were always kind of extraordinary to me, the same way as the music of that whole record. So I have to say it was twice as good to listen to the excavated version of "Slow Asphyxiation" with his death growls. It was modified a bit, such as Joakim added some double basses to the 2nd riff and the intro riff was smoothly slowed down at its ending too. Have to admit its solo also became awesome and refreshed way modestly, while right before it Anders injected some tricky background grunts. Kind of pretty clever modifications! Fredrik Folkare was responsible for mixing and mastering, thus no complaints at all, it sounds the way it should! This piece of 7" vinyl was limited to 1000 copies and pressed onto 4 colors (black, silver, white and clear), so hurry up and get yours until it's too late. You can still buy "Pesta" directly at the band's online shop: shop.necrophobic.net!