Infinitum Obscure - Sub Atris Caelis
November 30 2009 at 06:12:04 AM
Latin, reapers, flames, inverted cruciform: Incessant déjà vu I’m three shakes from crediting to unbounded Thanksgiving drink. Mexico’s Infinitum Obscure achieves trifecta and adds ouroboros! Wondering if Metoyer’s & Necromorbus’ mark equals some hackneyed hat-trick in one of all possible worlds? Maybe not… But it does certainly help a Tijuana trio sound Swedish, yes.
Morbid Angel’s
Covenant is swell jumping-off-point. Sounds snarky. It aint. Band has to soar as “Pain Devine.” Infinitum Obscure can, yes. But this record’s fidelity is Astroglide tech to the foil-ears sound of
Covenant. Guitar work is gorgeous, if not too Swedish, yes. Vocals – nearly all, uh-huh, sounding so Erik Danielsson this late November day. Drums professional, yet often a nagging par. Still there’s “Toward the Eternal Dark,” which is
Sworn To The Dark in ways only folks who truly understand Watain as Dissection extension in absentia can ascertain.
The “Blackened Death Metal,” “Dark Death Metal,” “Metal ov Death,” stuff succeeds in ways avuncular pervs can at worn parlor tricks. Infinitum Obscure, along with 100s of other “Dark Death Metal” bands are at once circling the drain of obscurity (har har har) and afloat in a sub-genre pre-pubescent at best. The formative years were good, folks. This aint bad either. Coming into one’s own is a process no one usually wants to hear, much less write/read about. Exceptions, exceptions, yes. Herring?
[Stewart Voegtlin]
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