Description
The crushing debut full-length by this Spanish band. Proscrito was born from the ashes of the sloppier incarnation known as Calvario in 2016 paying homage to the too-doomed-to-be-dead/too-dead-to-be-doomed music of such acts as Cianide Hellhammer/Celtic Frost Necro Schizma Asphyx Autopsy Paradise Lost Winter Samael and Goatlord crafting slow and churning tracks that were to be (not really) perfected with the band´s debut EP El Calvario in 2017: a release filled with an all-encompassing passion for decay and rottenness from the penitent and flagellant opening track Via Crucis to the closing instrumental mantra that is Puteado pounding caveman percussion thundering bass and wah-soloing frenziness in between. After three days of morbid delirium at Moontower Studios (Ataraxy Graveyard Oniricous Teitanblood) once again under Javier Felez´s supervision Proscrito´s follow-up to the debut EP took form with some more echoes to the days of yore as a full-length frontal assault titled Llagas y Estigmas (Sores and Stigmata) featuring 5 disgruntled litanies of blood sweat and no-tears imagery reminiscent of Robert E. Howard and Cormac McCarthy muscular riffage vomit and mucus. Tracks like Marcado por la Pezuña Tronos de Oprobio or their (scato)logical outcome Pantalgia truly persist with that tradition of primitiveness putting the stress both in the Death and the Metal for Doom has always been the band´s destiny its powers and wisdom. Any way you describe it the dense and sulfurous rumble this Spanish power trio creates can cause tectonic shifts as ably as it can rot your soul. There´s an almost uncomfortably carefree laissez faire approach to Proscrito´s ritualistic plod as if the band is indifferently acting as a conduit for supernatural frequencies only they can sense. It´s not often that Memento Mori dips its toes into the doomier end of Death Metal as of lately but when it does be fucking sure that it´s for good reason! And indeed Llagas y Estigmas is one badass good reason!
