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Profanatism (Poland): “Hereticon”

12/12/2016

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Profanatism is a Polish duo formed in 2012 by Hidden (from Wofsgott) and Baron (from solo band Elegis). After a demo, Painful Incarnations, and a split with Sarg, featuring songs from the promo album entitled My Kingdom Come, Profanatism  released their first full-length, Hereticon in 2016.

The band plays chaotic black metal with lots of variations in rhythm and guitar melodies, where atmosphere shares its role with aggressiveness. The idea of harmony, present to some extent, expands to a regular pacing that keeps the rawness going. The ultimate feeling is that a lot of elements are communicating between each other and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

Tracks like “I Cold” show a more atmospheric trait and “Dance with a Serpent” is much more chaotic and raw in the vocal work, mixing process and operating (dis)harmonies. Bits of ambient soundscapes punctuate the album here and there, closing a somewhat unstable circle of coherence.

As a first album, Profanatism could please some black metal listeners that are interested in new sounds from European lands, but the overall guess is that this work pretends to be attached to some post-black metal aesthetics - and it gets there sometimes - but there’s still room for improvement in some areas, mostly related with the creation of powerful guitar riffs.
 
Notes: 
Hereticon was released as CD on June 6 2016 by Under the Sign of Garazel Productions and as cassette (66 copies) in October 2016 by Total War.

Tracklist
1. Intro
2. Darkness in the Eyes of God
3. Icon Hereticon
4. I Cold
5. Dance with a Serpent
6. Nowy świt
7. Ostatni zmierzch
8. Legion in My Soul
 
Personnel:
Baron – Guitars
Hidden – Vocals, lyrics

Text by Vetrarnótt
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