“Darkest Rise” follows a modern structure of having lots of Extreme Metal influences in its track listing. Songs go from the darkest and fastest Black Metal features to the gloomiest and shoegazed features from Darkned Doom. Sometimes all that happens in only one song. As I said before, all those outer influences, even though from Heavy Metal as Black Metal fans sustain, enriched the subgenre. Pay attention to the beginning of “Darkest Rise” and wonder if it couldn’t be in any 1980’s album. I guess it could. Its following “Fallen,” on the other hand, is a true outcome of 1990s Scandinavian Black metal scene, the one Black metal fans say is the truest as if there is such thing.
The pros and cons of “Darkest Rise” are the same; to be a Modern Black Metal specimen. And I hold to it fiercely. Black Metal now expresses all human anguishes, not only the rebellion against religion, which, in fact, still continues to be valid. Into Pandemonium express them well in here. To go explore elsewhere doesn’t mean to forget the roots, and Into Pandemonium show it in the desperate “Fathomless.” Black Metal forgot a little the Black to be more Metal, and it’s a win-win situation. I guess…
Into Pandemonium “Darkest Rise” will be released on January 24th.
Track Listing:
- Darkest Rise
- Becoming
- Violent Uprising
- Sound of Perfidy
- La Morte
- Fallen
- Fathomless
Watch “Becoming” official lyric video here:
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!