Antichrist – Pax Moriendi CD
Antichrist – 'Pax Moriendi' CD
CD edition limited to 500 copies
After a slew of demos Peru's Antichrist rumble forward with this mammoth 2018 debut album. The trio studiously perfected their craft, shaping its huge 'n' haunting foundation - the doom-death trinity of Thergothon, Unholy, and Winter - into something qualitatively their own. The listener is taken down into sewers a mile deep (or more), tweaking that immortal doom-death schematic into something righteously foul and filthy but still well within the range of melancholic human experience. Crushing-yet-ethereal chords reverberate through the forlorn night, and ever deeper into one's worst corners of their subconscious; the attack is slow yet insistent early on, with the foulness and filth flung liberally, to either alienate part-timers or beckon the most intrepid of souls. Then, as the album plays on, Pax Moriendi reveals a wounded sort of slo-mo melody, a blanching vulnerability, shedding its layers of metaphysical/spiritual garbage for the laid-bare/laid-to-rest epiphany of climactic closer "You Will Never See Sun Light." No, indeed you won't when faced with the enormity of ANTICHRIST's Pax Moriendi. Here is your funeral: welcome the end.
