Band: Corpus Christii
Title: Luciferian Frequencies
Label: Candlelight Records
Distribution: Rough Trade Benelux / Bertus
Release date: June 20th 2011
Review: CD

One of the strongest Black Metal formations from Portugal are Corpus Christii, formed in 1998 and creators of a handful of excellent full albums. The band’s musical approach did change somewhat throughout the years, but their specific blackened basics have been the fundaments for always… It did not change this time either.
Corpus Christii’s approach is very grim and obscure, with a subtle Post-Black injection (especially the guitar riffs and the rhythm section’s sound). That abyssal sound drenches the whole into the deepest symbolic / mysterious / gloomy / ominous spheres, nearly necrotic and demonic. The rough hymns vary a lot in tempo, including permanent contrasts between blasting eruptions and funereal decelerations.
If you take some of the most oppressing elements from Satyricon, Blut Aus Nord, Frost, Burzum, Marduk and Celtic Frost to create a morbid sound collage with a truly black-hearted spirit, the outcome will open the gates to Luciferian Frequencies.

83/100

Ivan Tibos.