Description
A diabolical duo hailing from Portugal NECROBODE made their first public assault with 2018’s Metal Negro da Morte via IRON BONEHEAD. Ever aptly titled Metal Negro da Morte geysered forth with a raw ‘n’ rude display of ancient black/death frequencies invoking a savage delirium from which the listener was rendered helpless to its hypnotic trance of terror. Wasting no time and now expanded to a trio NECROBODE carry forth that antagonistic aesthetic on their debut album Sob o Feitico do Necrobode. In many ways NECROBODE’s debut LP simply intensifies their demo’s firm ‘n’ filthy foundation – pulsing bestiality clanging riffery FX-drenched vomits from the abyss – and threads these ten tracks into a haunting tapestry of dungeonic catatonia. But rising from that muck (and often) are very-nearly-melodic phrases that instill just the right amount of catchiness without going overboard into soft sterility. Likewise with an unstudied minimalistic approach to their blackgrind (read: NOT avant-garde) do NECROBODE nod as equally to the likes of Bestial Summoning Naked Whipper and Blood as they do classic VON ’90s Demoncy and Drawing Down the Moon-era Beherit. Which is to say nothing of their frequent-yet-subtle usage of synths at various points across Sob o Feitico do Necrobode instilling a conspicuous stench of witchcraft…
