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On 21 March, Purity Through Fire is proud to present Ad Mortem's debut album, In Honorem Mortis, on CD, A5 digipack, vinyl, and cassette tape formats.
If there's one certainty in these uncertain times, it's that Purity Through Fire will continue to raise the banner of nowadays German black metal: proud and pure in its expression, honouring the past whilst not being shackled to it, and evincing a professionalism that doesn't sacrifice true underground spirit. Its latest executioner is Ad Mortem (familiar to those who caught its Purity Through Fire-released split with standard-bearers Mavorim in that very uncertain year of 2020).
With its debut album, In Honorem Mortis, Ad Mortem dispenses with any subtlety and goes for the throat quickly and calculatingly. While the eight hymns comprising its debut album hover around the five-minute mark, everything on In Honorem Mortis sounds irrepressibly urgent. Mind you, the quartet's songwriting isn't categorically "all speed, all the time" - its shifting of gears, from strength and honour gallop to pistons-pumping blast, is as fluid as it comes - but their execution of such puts Ad Mortem in rarefied territory: seamlessly flowing, even swinging, making their martial thrust all the more mesmerizing. Of course, the German tongue makes their black metal bite harder and is wrapped in a polished yet powerful production. Link
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