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Venezuela. Hot, sunny and bright South America. Not for Cultura Tres, who show us the dark side of the deep south of the Americas. That dark that goes into ancestral, the hidden, the not expressed and, therefore, suppressed.
The
result we get is everything but sunny and bright: we find ourselves in front of
isolated and obscure lands, cold and dying, where rage dwells together with
desolation and darkness prevail.
Desolation
shows itself right from the beginning, from those never-ending seconds of
silence opening the first track, Propiedad De Dios, and the entire album. A
surprising, unexpected and scary starting. The same as their approach to sludge
doom: heavy, powerful and monolithic, which never stops to get you a bit
restless, just like when you go paranoid, keeping on turning your head back to
look if someone is following you, while you are walking alone in a dark and
desert road.
Ancestral,
I was saying, like the tribal rhythms that fill the instrumental Los Muertos De
Mi Color, where foggy atmospheres and guitar moans make the sound almost
esoteric, as a background for a (apparently) political speech, that falls on
the listener as a catastrophic prediction.
The same
is the whisper which opens and closes The Grace, together reassuring and
annoying, exactly like that significant black part in the sound, which
characterizes this cry for grace, indeed.
An album
made of moments and passage rites, between the feeling of belonging to a land
and the one that it is far from you – mixing English and Spanish sometimes also
inside the same track; between rage and being shattered – mixing moments of
angry-distorted metal and smooth-clean ones full of echoes. Right as in
Purified and in the cry for the truth No Es Mi Verdad.
Holy
Graveyard is the conclusion of this record, where the conclusion is, indeed,
the grave, where the most powerful growl ever in the album hovers over a storm
of massive and dissonant distortions and a continuous kicks of double bass
pedal, showing us in its full what is ‘the good of evil’.
A very
well-done work this second album by Cultura Tres, an incredible result of the
right mix among sludge, doom and black metal, conceived with class, brilliantly
recorded. Really a self-production to be proud of.
TRACKLIST
- Propiedad De Dios
- Purified
- Los Muertos De Mi Color
- El Sur De La Fe
- No Es Mi Verdad
- The Grace
- El Mal Del Bien
- Voices
- Tres Seiz Diez Dos
- Your Call
- Holy Graveyard
INFO
ANNO: 2011
LABEL: self produced
