Sangue

Ohhh!! This is total madness!! The second Mater Tenebra album (after the obscure debut) is simply incredible. Let’s start from the music: they play ultra violence black metal and this can be enough to warn you if you want to buy this album. An incredible bloodbath. Before this album I had never listen to something like this…they are even faster than Marduk in Panzer Division Marduk!

The thing I like the most is that they are EVIL and not only fast and brutal. Sometimes is difficult to put together good, fast and evil parts…they definitely did it. For example, when I heard to the last Dark Funeral album I said it was good, with a great production, fast but not obscure like their albums in the past. The obscure feeling is very important for a black metal band and I think that nowadays it can be found only in the underground, like this black masterpiece.

Guitars are raw, sometimes added with acoustic one in the “slower” parts to recreate a vision of hell like in Samhain song or The Last Offer. The other guitars parts are something never heard before: they are influenced by the whole occult/underground Italian scene (early Necrodeath and Mortuary Drape) creating a sinister violence, hard to find in other black metal bands.
The unholy war machine drummer is faster than a plane and you can hear very well there is a man playing it…no fucking drum machine. His sound is quite clear and the production, always being an old fashioned one, is great and powerful enough.

The vocalist is the classic black metal singer, sometimes influenced by Enthroned but less personal even doing a great job, alternating in some parts screams to growls…the biggest part of this album has been done by the instruments anyway. Sometimes is difficult to think the band is composed by three men only; it seems like they are legions marching in the obscurity.

With Sangue (Blood), Mater Tenebra show they supremacy in the Italian (and not only) black metal field. Is interesting to think that lots of labels probably even don’t know this group, going on producing crap from other countries…well, this is the typical Italian scene, where only the melodic, crappy groups can go abroad to play, finding a good label.

Please, give this album a chance and you’ll enjoy it. Ultra violence for your poor ears and blood will flow.