Band: Vetus Obscurum
Title: Blood Revelations
Label: Debemur Morti Productions / Agonia Records
Distribution: Sure Shot Worx / Displeased Records
Release date: 01/01/2010
Review: MCD

American devil worshipper and multi-instrumentalist Dario Derna, aka Crom, aka Numinas, is and was involved with several (great) (Death / Doom / Black) projects, among which Abazagorath, Krohm, Funebrarum, Drawn And Quartered or Evoken, to name but a few. In 1995, he also founded Vetus Obscurum as a solo-outfit, but this project didn’t last that long at all.
However, in 2008 Numinas decided to reform this project and soon he recruited two (ex-) colleagues to help him out with the band on vocals: Nihilist (Numinas’ former colleague in Abazagorath, and also known from bands as In Memorium, Thy Infernal, Wraithen or Lord Gore), and Death (Drawn And Quartered, Plague Bearer, Beltfed Weapon).
The recordings (+ mix) of this promo / demo were done at Numinas’ own studio (ColdVoid Studio) and this brings me to the only shitty thing: this recording consists of four tracks, which is a real pity because of the excellence of the material.
The ‘music’ on Blood Revelations is a rather filthy, raw and oppressing form of obscure Black Metal with a slightly industrialised ‘Post’-sound, variation in tempo (from slow over mid-tempo to very fast), and a modest ‘melodic’ approach. The whole comes with a sound that is so cold, so darkening, so eerie – exhaling an ominous yet majestic underground spirit with a gargantuan old school-oriented touch of anti-humanism. No superficial additions (high-pitched screams, harmony chants, female vocals, gothic keyboards, ‘traditional’ instrumentation etc), just a purest definition for the ultimate soundtrack for the Dark Minded.
A full length soon, please!!!

94/100

Ivan Tibos.