BRUMA OBSCURA / GORGONIAN - Inner Hell / 2006 - split demo

The sixth release of the Portuguese black/death metal label "Hell Unleashed Records", that is already making some fuss in the Portuguese underground scene, is a split-demo tape limited to 100 copies that presents us the last work of the Portugese bands Bruma Obscura and Gorgonian. Gorgonian had already a release with this label in the compilation "Colheita 2005", with bands like Amphion, Deep Odium, Infernal Kingdom and Tenebrarvm. Bruma Obscura have a tape released by "Mistress Dance Records" title "Murmúrios da Serra".

Bruma Obscura is a project leaded by Hell M., declared as misantrophic, and yet inspired in the Mother Natured, specially in the mists of Serra da Estrela. After their Murmúrios da Serra demo there were some line-up changes, and in this split we have two cold, cutting, and obscurely and atmosphericly intense tracks, now growled by Varg's voice, in Portuguese.

But the great revelation here is gorgonian: a "One Man Band" executed by Lord Quetzalcoatl (in the press-release that came with the demo he is presented this way, and not like he was used to be called - Lord Quental) that shows us a strong yet melancholic and depressive feeling in a distinct and original sonority - leading us to thing that Gorgonian has finaly it's sonority defined. With a track being an Ode to Death, after one other - a dialogue between L.Q. and Lucifer, this split lets us waiting for a Gorgonian release where we can finaly appreciate what this band promises us and yet didn't deliver yet.

All in all, this is a cool demo to have, but we wouldn't loose our sleep if we didn't.