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Titled after a book by French writer Roger GILBERT-LECOMTE who used to willingly infect himself with Tetanus in order to dive into delirious mystical crises and based on books by infamous and controversial French writer Louis-Ferdinand CELINE or German-American writer Charles BUKOWSKI, produced, like its predecessor, by Francis CASTE (SINSANEUM, ARKHON INFAUSTUS, DEHUMANâ¦), âTétanos Mystiqueâ, the new MITHRIDATIC album, is the logical step further for the band and it has way more to offer than meets the eye.
Even though it could, like âMiserable Miracleâ, the bandâs debut, mistakenly be taken for an archetypal orthodox Blackened Death Metal album, itâs a curveball, itâs at odds with any simple and simplistic overview and conception. Itâs way darker than any of your âPraise Satanâ or âFuck my corpseâ things, itâs more technical than most of your tech-Death wankery (Kevin PARADIS himself says heâs recorded the most technical blast-beat he ever put on tape, for âTétanos Mystiqueâ, even though heâs now a permanent member of such acts aas BENIGHTED or AGRESSORâ¦): itâs a one way dive into dis-ease, mental illness, discomfort, psychological torment ; away from whatever is âfittingâ or âbeing healthyâ. Itâs, musically and lyrically, one of those rare pieces of art you should take with caution for if immerging yourself too deep into it, youâd really be at risk, mentally-wise.
With a razor-sharp playing and with an intense, surgical yet bestial production, âTétanos Mystiqueâ is vicious, perverse, sick and sickening, wicked and wickening. Itâs a bottomless abyssal spiral to the most unfitting, darkest, most twisted and most sociopathic of what man has in itself. Itâs mesmerizing and nauseating. Itâs disgust and scorn towards everything âsocietyâ and âwellnessâ. Subtle, nevertheless, and with a fetish for infectious riffing and memorable songs, it never walks the easy path that plagues Extreme Metal these days, itâs mental corruption and aura corrosion embodied.
Bow to your new mayhemic Lords of All Fevers and Plague!