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Band info
Band: Kvlto
Album: ‘De margens, fendas e trevas‘
Released on October 25th, 2024
Genre: black metal
Location: Brazil
Review
Happy end of another week, listeners. The band we are bringing today is gonna ensure this is the case with a blast from the past (in technical terms, at least, because this is 100% fresh).
Kvlto, from Brazil, are the artists in the spotlight today, presenting through the network what is their second record, which will be one year old quite soon. ‘De margens, fendas e trevas‘ (Of margins, cracks and darkness) follows the band’s career towards recovering and taking the sound of the 90’s pioneering bands and their lo-fi but adventurous raw line of work. Back then, the sound, song structures and taboo topics were enough to call it a day, but Kvlto serves as a the perfect conduit of such time with completely different optics to revet that face of darkness as actually countercultural, like some artists of the time attempted to among the edgy and hate fueled ones (speaking of such specifically charged and biased shallow hate, hate for hate, or Odium dicta).
Purposefully written entirely in Portuguese, you can expect this album to cast exactly the feel of classic black metal in the same fashion as their self-titled did, also incorporating another common element of the grim, myth and fantasy infused dark frame of black metal: a Theodor Kittelsen illustration.
These are 6 songs of well-produced, solid aggression with a pinch of tragedy, opened and closed with its proper DS/piano intro and epilogue as most epic tales sung in this margin usually are, adding anti-colonialism and anti-fascism to the also classic topics visited in the concerns and reverence of artists within black metal.
Don’t miss it!
Other links and platforms:
BC: https://kvlto.bandcamp.com/