Band: Sacrarium
Title: March To An Inviolable Death
Label: De Tenebrarum Principio
Distribution: De Tenebrarum Principio
Release date: March 8th 2011
Review: CD (re-release)

Later this year, Sacrarium, a project by Steve Renard aka Valafar aka V.R.S., will celebrate their tenth anniversary. A decade of French evilness, with my compliments…
For March To An Inviolable Death, V.R.S. (music, vocals, guitars, programming) worked together with session bass player David ‘D.A.V.’ Mariteau (ex-Obnoxious) and lyricist Stephane ‘A.m.K.’ Scholl.
The album starts with a short ominous intro (A.C.R.H.), an industrialised soundtrack with samples, yet as from the first seconds of Heartless Visions on: Blast Black! March To An Inviolable Death stands for more than forty seven minutes of chaotic and apocalyptic Black Metal, lightning-fast, demonic and malicious in all aspects. (especially) The drum computer gives the whole a mechanical approach, and the overall sound is underground-styled – read: primitive, raw and crusty. A few slower moments enrich the overpowering heaviness of the album as well, luckily.
For fans of, let’s say, fellow countryman (not ‘-men’, because it’s a one-man project too) of Haemoth, fellow countrymen (plural) Aosoth, Gorgoroth, (early) Abigor, Diabolicum or Kult.

87/100

Ivan Tibos.