Adventum
Diaboli - Ο Λόγος Του Σκότους: Chapter I
Greece
Independent
Aventum
Diaboli from Greece plays atmospheric black metal with occult themes.
The music emphasises atmosphere and sometimes borders on post-black
metal with its ambient guitar sensibilities. The vocals are heavily
distorted and sound kind of cool. The music is not particularly
captivating, as I have heard dozens of similar sounding bands before,
but it's not bad either. What I like about it is that the atmosphere
gives off this ancient feel reminiscent of second wave black metal.
The songs are pretty simplistic in structure, but still well put
together and easy to get into. There's definitely a good bit of Norse
black metal influences in their sound despite the fact they're from
Greece. If the lyrics were not in Greek, I would probably have
thought the band was from Norway. I had the patience to sit through
the record in its entirety, so that itself should attest to the fact
that the music isn't terribly offensive, although I've definitely
heard better sounding black metal bands from Greece. (HT)