Origin: New York / South Carolina, USA 🇺🇸
Genre: Black Metal
Blasphemy – the most provocative form of expression – an act of freedom, whether it be committed through stroke of pen, brush or string. When it comes to this ageless art of defiance, as a musical entity, none do it better than the legendary Profanatica. But in 2018, a trio of Hellswine were excreted from some vile beast onto American black metal soil. With them they brought the foulest defamations and a promise of crimes anew. Now, Black Eucharist, in conspiracy with Stygian Black Hand, are preparing to unveil their first great slight in the forthcoming “Inn of the Vaticide”.
From front to back, the purest mockeries of the holy to be taken in. Not a second devoted to anything else, and that’s the way it should be. When you go blasphemy, you go all the way. With “Inn of the Vaticide”, Black Eucharist vomit desecrations upon both Old and New Testaments – curses that echo back to the days of Moses. And they’re driven like crucifixion nails deep into your goat-loving brain with angel-raping black metal violence. A patient, unrelenting and humiliating deflowering of divine hymen set to bulldozing, Archgoat & Blasphemy-heralding riffs, jackhammer beats and even a bit of atmosphere during the playful interlude, “The Soiled Crucifix”. Just as assuredly as their failed messiah did defecate upon his cross, so too shall Black Eucharist bring the BM savagery for the rest of the album. Peppered in throughout this orgiastic defilement, you’ll discover some nice samples and cinematic parts to experience in cuts like the opener, “Black Ejaculate” along with the album’s lengthiest cut, the flagship “Broken Staff of the Shepherd”. The former sets the tone with a scathing evangelical blaspheme before the latter takes you down reasonably paced but unpredictable compositional avenues that drudge their way through immersive visuals-inspiring sequences.
Yes, Profanatica-worship is definitely what’s going on throughout some of the album, but substantially, the material boils down to wholly original black metal that stands on its own – a vital record to a thriving but shifty USBM scene. “Inn of the Vaticide” is a statement-making debut LP that challenges one to take up his chalice of blasphemy and imbibe upon the sweetest sin. 40 minutes worth of Left Hand revelry along with the most delightful and warm Satanic energy to be felt throughout. The DM-drenched closer, “A Foul Stench Lingers At Peor”, digs in with penetrating Incantation-level progressions; brutal grinds that eat through lacerated tissue like salt to crucifixion’s wounds are incurred upon righteous flesh…
So as the fires of blasphemy rage and the cathedrals smolder in the great Unholy War, the soundtrack to it all unfolds right here. And there is no mercy for the sacred, no solace for the sons of Abraham and no place but the rubbish fire for their Holy Bible… An olde fashioned adversarial volume wrapped in gorgeous packaging that features cover art and even the band’s logo as they exude the warmth of classism; an alluring deception to draw the unknowing into the pits. “Inn of the Vaticide” is well balanced and maliciously executed black metal fit for both the seasoned vet and the tempted newcomer.
8.5/10
“Inn of the Vaticide” is scheduled to be released on June 23 via Stygian Black Hand. There are currently no album tracks or visuals available to the public.
~Jeger
