Greek black metallers Erevos return with their debut 10-tracker Descensus Ad Inferos. The band was formed in 2004 and after few successful demo and EP releases they are finally ready with this new album recorded in 2011. The mixing and mastering of this opus was done in a co-operation with Dan Swanö at his Unisound Studios in Sweden. Thus, the overall sound and production of this record is quite good.

Erevos is still playing a typical black metal while incorporating numerous elements from different subgenres of extreme metal such as heavy riffing, keyboard and synth parts, atmospheric passages, haunting melodic lines and expressive and desperate vocals.

Descensus Ad Inferos kicks off with a beautiful into song “Adou Katavasis” which is a six-minute track that perfectly sums up all the things mentioned above. The next song is called “The Omnipotence of the Judges” and it is somehow chaotic and misplaced. On the other hand “Those Who Decide About Fate” is a brutal thrashy black metal assault, a quite pleasant change.
Finally the album ends with “Adou Anavasis” which is a kind of outro wrapping-up the whole story that begun with the intro song “Adou Katavasis”.

I think that Descensus Ad Inferos is a great and mature black metal album, one that sounds fresh and modern while incorporating other sounds and elements that were ‘forbidden’ to think of for just decade ago. I can highly recommend you to check this album out as you will most definitely not get disappointed with it.

Erevos is here to stay, being a great representative of Greek metal. Esp. recommended for fans of Mayhem, Necrodeath, Deicide, Cradle of Filth, Satyricon, Dissection and similar.
For more info visit: http://www.erevosblack.gr/


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