Artist:  Pestilential Shadows
   Title: Depth
   Label: Seance Records  

This is the fourth full-length release from this black metal band in Australia.  Influences include Dawn, Lord Belial, Klage, Kvist & Weakling. This is their first album since 2009, having spent the last two years writing this follow-up to 'In Memoriam', 'Ill Omen'. On the first release in Australia the album sold out and the decision was made to release worldwide, one they have no cause to regret.

The fast, skilful guitarists are able to play at a blistering pace, matching the vocals that are welded onto these instrumentals. The drum is barely discernible, except for the cymbals creating a cacophonic effect that overtakes all other sounds.

The soothing, almost sophoric effects of the middle of 'Lost Geists of the Sunlit Sphere' lull the listener into thinking the sing has change, when in fact it blasts back into the black with speedy guitars and cacophonic cymbals. This continues throughout, and defines this as an album for the black metaller in many of us.

Review by: Kerry H
 Tracklisting:

1. Lost Geists Of The Sunlit Sphere
2. Tribulations Of Man
3. Choirs Beyond The Blackened Stars
4. Architects Of The Spear
5. Shrine
6. Poisoner
7. Putrid Earth
8. Depths

                   

 

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