It is with our greatest pleasure to present to you, dear listener (or hate-stalker), what is without a doubt another incredibly mindblowing release this year has to offer. Mater Infecta, the three-piece band coming from Italy, will most probably hook their sharp claws on you if you’re down for a proper black/death blend, with so many surprising and extraordinary compositional features getting intertwined in this whole but short EP that they’ve very recently released.

The first detail that is worth mentioning is at the very beginning, with a self-titled intro song that will instantly get moody with a saxophone rocking the first notes with a catchy and melancholic tone, with a string accompaniment leading to a slight pause just before the voice emerges with a sorrowful growl. Clearly, a new and relevant step in the band’s career if we look back at their previous work, outside of the frame that is regularly seen again and again in this specific
mix of styles around, the effort put into motion towards experimentation to find both themselves artistically and a sound that better embodies the conceptual side of their project (a series of tragic odes to existentialism clad in gloom, and plenty of inspired crafts from dark romanticism and horror through any and probably all fields, from countless bands in music, to literature and visual arts as seen put in their cover artworks illustrating this very work) shines bright at every moment in Di estetica, epifanie e tormenti.

And overall majestic song building, with a wide range of elements and arrangements that altogether create a job that both in frantic sound and desolating atmosphere can easily remind of the most iconic works by bands such as Cradle of Filth and Opera IX, for instance, expanding the sound to Gothicism, all movements and rhythmic changes doing it smoothly, resulting in a very organic result, that it just knows when to burst and spike, and when to put together a more complex part, showcasing the band’s dedication to well-crafted art, filled with sense and purpose.

With songs in their natural Italian tongue, the only conclusion possible is to admire how these lyrics, some songs more personal than others in regards to the band members, sharply express emotions and ideas on these topics from subjective surrealism and mysticism to metaphors and eldritch entities as imaginative manifestations of sensations and ideas drawing mostly from the dread hanging on existence; with this cocktail of features, every note, riff and shriek (with occasional clean vocals adding the last piece completing the image over the guitar bridges), Mater Infecta stands out with this fantastic, full of heart and passion EP, that we are sure it will strongly resonate for any fans of the aforementioned styles and names.

⚔️ MATER INFECTA ⚔️
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