If you like plenty of red sauce in your movies as well as your pasta, TENEBRO from Italy is the band for you. This is death metal smothered in the tasty gore of the Italian giallo films…specifically, the movies of one Dario Argento.
The connection between Italian horror and death metal is well known and TENEBRO might be better at it than any one except classic NECROPHAGIA. Above all, they get the creepy, suffocating atmosphere of Argento films like Inferno and Deep Red and transfer that dread to gruesome, gory death metal. The guitar tone here is unreal, coated in slime and darkness. TENEBRO are at their best when they compose death metal tracks with a lot of baroque, twisting riffs, like ‘Inferno’, ‘Jennifer’ and ‘Piume Rosse’, which make use of varied tempos well. These songs have some of the best DM riffs I have heard in a while. But the band also excels with barbaric bursts of full bore blasting, like on ‘Larvae Affamate’, which will really clear your sinuses!
As you might expect, there are plenty of LOUD samples from Argento movies (he was known for some of the loudest films ever made), which will satisfy giallo fans. But even without, the brooding menace of songs like ‘Impiccata’ transmit feelings of horror.
With zero traces of tech-death or deathcore, this is as pure as death metal gets. Long live Argento! And long live TENEBRO!
Review By: Dr. Abner Mality
TENEBRO
Una Lama D’Argento
Time To Kill Records