Band: Fides InversaAlbum: Hanc Aciem Sola Retundit Virtus (The Algolagnia Divine)
Year: 2009
Country: Italy
Try to pronounce that album-title six times fast, could be a great drinking game. Apparently the title is Latin and means something like Just Virtue Lowers the Acuteness, the name Fides Inversa means Inverse Faith. The album starts off with a intro consisting of an orchestra playing something that sounds like battle-music. Then the music cuts through the room like a roman gladius and the battle is upon you. Volley after volley of dark and relentless Black Metal is thrown at you with remarkable speed, rarely the bpm reaches below the "evil mark". This dark legion of extreme music shows no mercy and if I would have seen that album-cover as a banner on the fields of battle I would turn my back and run for my life. Fides Inversa could well enough be one of the next big names in Black Metal and if a band from Rome whom plays Orthodox Black Metal and sings in Latin is not the perfect mixture then I don't know what is.
Song(s) you should listen to: The last track, Algolagnia Divine, has some really great riffs and a lot of variation. There's a bit of blast beat-mayhem, a bit of melodic jibber jabber as well as some slower and heavier parts. My favourite part begins at about 7:20, the fast drumming and the sliding guitar-riff really works out great together.
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Last two songs are corrupt and won't extract!
Problem should be solved now. Thank you for telling and for reading.
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