AGATHOS - Nihil Est
Self Released
Imagine, if you will, Sons of Northern Darkness on steroids? Imagine some of the best Norwegian black metal you've heard but the band is not from Norway. OK you don't have to imagine because this is it. AGATHOS is a four piece act who hail from Valencia, Spain. The band is new, starting out just last year, but the members are all veteran musicians of their local scene.
Nihil Est is a five song EP with a running time of just under twenty eight minutes. But with all that said, this is by far one of the most exciting releases I've heard in 2018. The EP starts off mildly with some spoken word intro and an acoustic guitar passage but suddenly explodes with icy tremolo picked fury. Next up the drums crash, bass thunders and angry harsh screaming barked vocals enter in and your world is over with.
This is the type of black metal that us fans literally crave like addicts. The guitar tone is sharp and freezing. The riffs employed are massive, then add how the rhythm section turns it all into a avalanche of blackened fury. The band also knows how to structure a song in order to allow some atmosphere to sneak in. Plus they allow melody to flow while breaking it up with machine like blast beatings. More acoustic guitar is used in an song intro. All in all Nihil Est is the black diamond you'll find when digging through a pile of coal.
https://agathos.bandcamp.com/
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