After two demos and two splits the Barcelona based hellraisers Inverted Cross are at last bringing us a short but sweet debut album fittingly named Eternal Flames of Hell, with a release date of November 29th set by Helldprod Records.
The fire-shrouded, goat-headed demon wielding a sword of lightning on the cover imperiously directs you to bow down and beg for mercy, but no mercy is to be found within the album, only riots of venomous black thrashing speed metal that will get rattled heads hammering and heated blood rushing.
You’ll see what we mean as we invite you to enter “Into The Crypt Of The Necromancer“, the latest single from the album that we’re premiering today, and a song that turns out to be hellish in more ways than one.
photo by Laura Ortega Girona
Drawing their inspirations from the Teutonic steel of bands like Destruction, Sodom, Kreator, Deathrow, and Violent Force, Inverted Cross show themselves fanatically devoted to inflictions of malignant cruelty and spinning up mad whirlwinds of unholy violence.
In this newest song they quickly spread sulfurous fumes and goatish menace with dirty, insidiously writhing riffage and primitive throbbing beats. As nasty cut-throat snarls enter the fray the riffing rises further above the hammering drums, still sinister but more demented, delivering its own feverish throbs and whining, skittering manifestations of deviltry.
After a very brief pause, just long enough for one quick breath, all hell finally breaks loose, drums maniacally clobbering, the rhythm guitar boiling, and a sequence of guitar solos convulsing in bursts of gloriously evil ecstasy. They end the romp with some clawing chords and the brutish stomp of iron-shod boots — a reminder that no mercy will be offered.
INVERTED CROSS is:
Guille Hungover – Bass & Vocals
Philip Graves – Guitars & Vocals
Alis Demonized – Guitars
Chris Carrest – Drums
Eternal Flames of Hell was recorded by Philip Graves and Jaume Perna Jack Dark. It was mixed and mastered by Gonzalo Vivero at In The Red Audio. The hellish cover art is the work of Velio Josto.
Helldprod will release the album on November 29th in a jewelcase CD format, available at a discounted price until the release day. Find ordering info below, along with a stream of the first single from the album, the well-named “Attack With Hellfire“.
ORDER:
https://helldprod.com/shop/index.php
https://helldprod.bandcamp.com/album/inverted-cross-eternal-flames-of-hell
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https://www.facebook.com/InvertedCrossOfficial