I stumbled on these guys a few years back. I knew nothing about them, but the cover stood out and the price was reasonable so I picked it up without listening. I was not quite ready for how good this turned out to be.
The cover has strong religious inclinations, and that effect is carried directly into the music. Inferno play a dissonant, yet highly atmospheric style of black metal that is blanketed in a deeply spiritual atmosphere.
This combination results in one of my favorite styles of black metal. When bands do it well - as Inferno do here - the music lulls me into a hypnosis. A meditative trance where I am able to lose myself in the musics sway. The combination of a lead guitar with ample amounts of delay and reverb played over a wall of sound will instantly have me hooked more times than not. The band never lets up on the atmosphere either.
From the very start there is an incredibly complete sound throughout the album. As the album matures it only gets better. Of the five real songs here, the last three are the strongest. The atmosphere grows, the riffs are more powerful, and there is tension in the music is unmatched.
The tension is largely created by tempo variation. The songs generally start slow and dissonant, and slowly morph into an explosion of crazy riffs, blasting drums, and a sound so thick you need a Damascus blade to cut through it.
This is most evident in Their Vertical Fissure of the Most Distant End. The song is nearly unbearably slow to start and over its ten minute run time slowly constructs a sonic vision. A vision of decay that is utterly destroyed by dissonant riffing and insane blasting at the end. Songs like this show that Inferno are masters of their craft.
I had no idea who these guys were when I picked up the album, and I still know next to nothing about the band. I prefer to keep it that way, let the mystery of the band remain and let the music speak for itself. With albums like Omniabscence Filled by His Greatness, this is the way.
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