CULT OF FIRE — Triumvirát (review)

CULT OF FIRE — Triumvirát album cover Album · 2012 · Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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"Triumvirát" is the debut full-length studio album by Czech Republic black metal act Cult of Fire. The album was initially independently released in July 2012 but has since seen a label release on CD through the Norwegian label Demonhood Productions. In addition to that a tape version including the "20:11 (2011)" EP was also released in September 2012 by Atomic Vision Productions/In League With Satan Productions.

The band play a rather old school sounding black metal with references to acts like Root and Master´s Hammer. The sound production on the album also makes it sound like it could have been released in the late eighties early nineties. The band incorporate a lot of atmosphere and epic sounding sections in their music too, so it´s safe to say that "Triumvirát" is a varied black metal release. The demo tracks that are included on the tape version of the album are in the same style albeit more raw and slightly less interesting. However original album tracks like "Závet Svetu", "Satan Mentor" (love that songtitle!) and "Cerná Aura" should be more than enough to entertain the listener.

Overall "Triumvirát" is both an adventurous and an old school black metal release, but it´s really not that surprising considering that Cult of Fire are a Czech Republic. A lot of the eastern European black metal acts play black metal with a twist. Sometimes with an unintentional funny twist but mostly with an adventurous twist that provides their music with more variation than most of the really old school Norwegian acts can muster (of course with exceptions). Cult of Fire belong to the latter catagory and "Triumvirát" is a greatly entertaining black metal release all through it´s playing time. A 4 star (80%) rating is deserved.
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