LITANY OF REGRETS are four young dudes from Italy and they play a painful, helpless and desperate hybrid of crust, post-punk and black metal that traces its roots back to Europe’s up and coming neo-crust movement, which is led by bands like Light Bearer, Link, Planks, and so on, and also leads back to the band’s most immediate origins, those embodied by GOTTESMORDER, the much more well known atmospheric black metal band in which guitarist Matteo usually plays bass.
That said, even though you may know already exactly what to expect, also rest assured that there are moments in this demo that are harder to pin down, that are just borderline annihilating, and that will leave you wondering what the hell on earth could have ever made these guys so fucking desperate and withdrawn into their hideous hole of bleak and tortured musical neglect.
The affair is indeed brief – barely 15 minutes – but there is plenty of material to get depressed over in here nevertheless, as the songs swirl and twist into mindless blasts of pulverizing blackened hardcore and then morph again, mutating in and out of filthy bogs of sludge and doom. Demo MMXIII is the band’s fist appearance on the scenes and while it’s short and at times feels like the sound quality isn’t exactly doing it justice, it is one hell of a sonic clobbering, and quite the kick in the teeth when it comes to all things blackened crust. Just a beginning, but we’ll definitely be keeping an eye out to see what these lads pull off next.
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