DE PROFUNDIS - Kingdom Of The Blind
October 28, 2015, 8 years ago
(Wickerman Recordings)
Metal Archives is telling me this De Profundis (there are a few, of course) are "progressive black/extreme metal", and I guess I'm kinda buying it, although I'll be the first to admit that descriptor kinda gets my guard up a bit. But, damned if these Brits don't pull it off on their fourth album, songs like the classy "All Consuming" doing what I imagine Enslaved do these days, while "Beyond The Threshold" blasts fast, ice-cold, and furious before getting all jazz-prog and then soaring-solo-prog.
But it works, it works, this stuff usually sending me running to my grindcore records, De Profundis managing to incorporate a seamless feel here, making all these parts fit when they just shouldn't, and also pulling it all off with a sense of, again, class. Reminds me in some odd way of listening to early Vintersorg albums and just being in awe of the vibe even if the end result was a sound that normally wouldn't be incredibly pleasing to these ears. Well played, De Profundis.
