The End of the Christian Age

Atheistc is the parallel band from the brazilian musician Dilpho Castro (founder and frontman of the gothic/doom group "silent cry").

Atheistc was formed in 2003, with the purpose of creating a more dark metal directed sound, approaching themes like atheism, aberrations from christianity, anti-religiosity and so on, but totally eschewing satanism from its thematic (the main idea was to confront christianity, but without promoting anykind of apology to satanism).

In 2004, the band raised with their first Demo Tape entitled "the angel of the dark garden" and, in 2007, Atheistc finally released their first full length album, called "the end of the christian age".

After listening to this album, there's only one conclusion to take: all the years Dilpho Castro has been involved into the music world (since silent cry times), has made him a unquestionably talented musician. And you yourself can check this by listening to this masterpiece.

The feeling left after an first audition, is something like "this can't be their very first album", so big is the maturity of the band.

The variety of the songs makes their sonority totally unique. Although you can call it "dark metal", you cannot simply think of if in the standard of the genre. Many elements and different atmospheres turn it much more an "atheistc metal" than anything else.

The album starts with an opening instrumental track called "inquisition", and follows with "the angel of the dark garden". Since the second song, you can check all the qualities mentioned above. It starts with a nice fast beat accompanied by cold keyboards notes, which gives a very interesting atmosphere to the music. The breking times along the song contributes for the magic of it.

"Obscure emotion" follows a much more gloomy and dark catch, reminding the best obscure veins of doom metal.

Some other nice moments are: the refrain of "the throne's fall", sang in duet with A. Damien (singer from the brazilian black metal band 'paradise in flames'); "romantic sin", with a total gothic metal approach; and finally, my favorite one, the title track "the end of the christian age", incredibly perfect, mixing all the elements above mentioned: fast beat, time breakings, symphonic passages, nice harsh vocals and, of course, the good job from Lord Vlad, who sang in duet with Dilpho Castro.

All the songs were built and arranged along a wonderful and marking keyboard job, played by Joyce Vasconcellos. I'd go further and say that this instrument was indispensable, or even fundamental, for the band reaching the peak in the sonority.

Another detail I cannot forget to mention are the female vocals. They mark a very nice presence, but they don't appear not all over the album. And this is a positive point in my view, 'cause they are placed in the correct moments. It contributes for those widely known "beauty and beast" passages, commonly explored by gothic metal bands.

After listening to it, all what's left is to wait anxiously for their next release.

Indispensable.