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Потерянный альбом начала 90-х. Первый и последний альбом германцев IMMORTALIS, "Indicium De Mortuis" - один из многих незаслуженно забытых альбомов того времени. На альбоме представлена смесь дэта с трэшем обычная для того времени. Учитывая сильнейшую традицию очень грубого трэша в Германии, удивляться здесь нечему. Но здесь перед нами не столько трэш, перерастающий в дэт, а дэт, еще несущий с собой наследие трэша, из которого он вырос.
Средний темп, гитарный чес, эффективная ритм-секция и полухрип вокалиста. Музыка очень энергичная и драйвовая. Иногда всплывают какие-то совершенно неожиданные ходы, вроде чистого распева на фоне гроулинга основного вокалиста, или псевдоцерковный орган (альбом делит пополам заглавная композиция - "орган" с хором и никаких гитар). К тому же, вкуснейший "восьмидесятнический" звук. Все вместе работает так здорово, что складывается в альбом, вполне достойный представлять свое время.
Пусть это не новаторская работа, определившая последующее направление развития тяжелой музыки, и не мелодический шедевр, но запись прекрасно выражает дух того времени, когда метал стал серьезной музыкой.
Оценка: 4+/5
(с) bruno1942 , 27 августа 2013
Источник: http://dark-world.ru/reviews/4660
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Immortalis (Germany) "Indicium De Mortuis" (1991)
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Immortalis/29093
"Indicium De Mortuis" first & only one full length album germany death metallers IMMORTALIS. God damn, this album is menacing as hell; don’t proceed with caution – go in and prepare to be kicked back out. If you want some dark, cryptic death metal with no mercy, then this is the stuff of kings. Obscure, Malevolent OSDM!
I rank this a step up from Malevolent Creation in terms of sick, despondent music with no care in the world except for its own twisted, personal gain. One look at the cover art and you know you’ll never be the same – the curiosity will kill you if you aren’t prepared (hit: you won’t ever be).
When I first found this album in the some French catacomb, I was told by the crypt-caretaker that this was a hidden, pessimistic masterpiece that not many remember or come across. So I gave it a listen myself and I wasn’t even half-correct: near-grind guitar tone, demonic roars, artillery drumming, and friggen’ monstrous bass. It’s like you’re lost in some catacomb (hehe) trying to hide from death, who’s always pointing his finger and chasing you. Actually, I’m reminded more of Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey where the two are in hell talking about how Satan is the shit when he’s looking right at them. I’d compare this one to Malevolent Creation’s and Hypocrisy’s first albums, if it came down to it, but the evil is twice as bitchin’.
Production is actually pretty damn good; no muffled drums, cowering bass, or rough vocals. For OSDM, it’s as special and haunting as they come, but with more doom as the special ingredients. Where Hypocrisy’s Penetralia was bludgeoning with its tone, this one is heavy as shit but laidback at the same time – it kills you with the rhythm rather than the massiveness of the guitar tone. It isn’t the Swedish chainsaw, but deafening and cavernous like bastardized thrash on crack. Most of the riffs are mid-paced crushers while the drumming is ballistic bombs bombarding the earth. They’re the faster part no matter what kind of rhythm you’re given, but it doesn’t mind slowing down once in a while, especially during the more entrancing moments.
That’s another thing that you’ll come to love with this album; intros, outros, and interludes are beguiled by enthralling, spellbinding keys that layer a horrific atmosphere above the listener. They aren’t overdone, but charming and evocative like Nocturnus’ The Key. “Burning Existence,” “Subordinate Gods,” “Quo Vadis (Everlasting Life),” and “My Requiem” are the only songs that contain these imposing moments. “My Requiem,” as the main instrumental next to “Subordinate Gods,” represents just how solitary life can possibly be; it’s a disturbing track that’ll surely send a chill up your spine and make the hairs on your neck stand up – creepy and lingering with eeriness.
Bielecki on vocals makes Bromberg from early Hypocrisy / Dark Funeral sound like a rat. They’re beastly, hoarse, sick, and contain no trace of compassion for the living.; very zombified and thirsty for blood, these growls. Sometimes you’ll get the occasional distant yell and maybe a scream here and there, but otherwise it’ll be demonic bellows the whole time – dirty, hungry, and pretty indecipherable. The Venom cover is obviously groovier and the growls are tamer, but as an OSDM rendition it’s pretty catchy. Some version of this album include a bonus track that’s untitled, but you’re not missing a whole lot from it – no magical breaks or melodies, except the melody you’ll be begging for as it curbstomps your head into the pavement.
I love the bass especially, but my attention isn’t always focused on it. While the guitars are ferociously hammered down, the bass grumbles through these cavern halls like it was borrowed from the doom genre. They’re so powerful that they rupture these pillars and are probably causing people to fall down above ground; it’s like a god damn earthquake with this bass – it doesn’t let up! Still, it follows the guitars because of it you’ll be focused more on the guitars. With it, the album does sometimes begin to sound the same after awhile, but you can’t help but toss it aside since the onslaught is unyielding.
I’d get my hands on this if I were you. Even if you had any hint of liking death metal and came across this album, you’d take one look at the cover and know off the bat that it’d be some good shit; it just has this killer old school sound mixed in with some soiled doom and gloom. As their only release, you have no excuse to let this one slip away from your ears. Hell, as damn good OSDM, you are ordered by metal law to listen to this!
Obscure, Malevolent OSDM - 84%
(c) OzzyApu, November 19th, 2009
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Track Listing:
1. Intro 00:52
2. Burning Existence 05:42
3. Subordinate Gods 05:36
4. Bleeding Inheritance 05:36
5. Quo Vadis (Everlasting Life) 04:32
6. Indicium de Mortuis 02:29
7. My Requiem 04:33
8. Voices of Forgotten Souls 04:29
9. Blasphemous Process 03:50
10. Countess Bathory (Venom cover) 04:07
Total Length: 41:46
All lyrics & music by Sebastian Bielecki except "Countess Bathory".
Track 2 is not mentioned on the sleeve.
Line-up:
Sebastian Bielecki - Vocals
Gregor Zelazny - Guitars
Tommy Scharm - Guitars
Ulrich Dammer - Bass
Marco Gebert - Drums
Recording information:
Produced, mixed, engineered and mastered at Stage 1 Studio, November, 1991, Germany by Andy Classen.
Tritze - Engineering
Sebastian Bielecki - Lyrics
Andy Classen - Producer, Mixing, Mastering, Engineering
Released 1991
Metal-Archives - http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Immortalis/29093
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