REVIEW: FATAL PORTRAIT - AN ELUSIVE INSTINCT OF LASCIVIA

 

FATAL PORTRAIT - AN ELUSIVE INSTINCT OF LASCIVIA (Downfall Records, 2000):

Technical data:

Recorded in the beginning of 2000

Track List: 1- Invocation, 2- Five Dimmensions of Pleasure, 3- Drowned in Your Eyes, 4- Where my Eagerness Died, 5- Cantabria Under Siege, 6- The Mirror´s Miracle, 7- Rapture Among the Idols, 8- Winter and My Grief, 9- Thus Tragedy Speaks

Satanic black metal...the name can full you a little bit eventhough the band plays that style. Why? Because the band is not a raw black metal band like Dark throne could be, even if they are really fast in some places and they have black metal riffs played over hyper fast blast beats. This band has a big difference, and that is their keyboards player who was recently added to the lineup and is constantly doing some bases to the tracks adding a lot of colour to the songs. Also the band has certain breaks and changes that are not typical of a black metal band and a lot of guitar melodies. For example when they start the melody at 1:49 in "Five Dimmensions of Pleasure" where the guitars are playing their melodies over a good drums pattern while the keyboards make an interesting chord progression before getting into a break and into a fast part again. A good definition would be Cantabrian black metal to give the band the identity and recognition that they deserve. Favorite tracks: "Drowned in your eyes", "Cantabria Under Siege" (a long track and the most complicated) and "Winter and My Grief". Contact: downfall_records@hotmail.com