Description

Another Italian death metal band? What happened to this country that all of a sudden within two or three years it spawned so many really cool old styled death metal hordes, while prior to that there was only very few, old bands, which I liked – like Bulldozer, Mortuary Drape, Horrid and Necrodeath – and nothing else managed to catch my attention?! I will not complain on that, as surely it is a good and positive thing, as bands like Undead Creep, Eroded, Profanal have been shredding mercilessly and Into Darkness joins their ranks… and who knows, if I like them even more than all those just mentioned bands? I mean, surely Undead Creep is awesome in their Swedish death metal slaughter and Profanal is also excellent at what they do… but Into Darkness may be the most obscure and evil sounding of all these bands and they really made my ears bleed with the material released under the title “Into Darkness”… which actually have been released as a demo first, but it was definitely worthy being released professionally on cd. Into Darkness has many influences, mainly in American bands – Incantation and Derketa and some European legends: Asphyx, Pentacle and Bolt Thrower, with some additional influence from Gorefest’s debut album and a bit of early Swedish and Finnish death metal scene. Sounds promising? It surely does! This demo is truly excellent. First of all, I love its production, which is heavy, brutal, but so powerful that every guitar riff sounds like played in the chamber or catacomb, bringing forth lethal energy and smell of putrid! But it wouldn’t be so effective, if Into Darkness didn’t manage to find the power of riff. Riff must be killer, must be catchy and brutal, but combined with the dark, evil atmosphere and sometimes even with some more harmonic passages… and that’s exactly what I have found on “Into Darkness”. Amazing riffs, well composed, arranged and executed songs and fantastic vocals of Doomed Warrior. Only four tracks, but they last for 25 minutes, so there’s a good portion of excellent doom / death metal to find on this album. I definitely recommend you getting it, especially if you’re into the bands I mentioned above, especially Asphyx.

Track list:
1. Into Darkness
2. Shadows
3. Nemesis: Star Of Catastrophe
4. Levy 9s Death