Conjuro - Linhagem Do Rei Bruxo Primordial
A new and obscure label from the UK has just been discovered. Called Sceptre and Crown, and one of the acts which are on this label is called Conjuro. An act which primarily has been releasing stuff on a Portuguese label called Cruentus. Conjuro has been active since 2013, and has released tons of underground cassettes... BUT, none of them are available via Discogs. BUT, this release which is from 2018 can be purchased either on CD or cassette via Sceptre and Crown´s Bandcamp site. You can also try to contact the site for Cruentus for further information regarding all the other cassette releases (see link below). A 7 seven-track album, about 52 minutes in total.
The first track is called King Atlas. Ritualistic and black-metal inspired vocals utter their demonic voices over a dungeon-synth´ish background. Not bad, just too short really. Next track Atlantean Evil makes the listener smell the tobacco-insensed studio with alcoholic beverages lying on the floor. You are probably being drunk as a skunk, messing around with a bottle of scotch trying to figure out where you are going to take a leak. A great, noisy, and primitive punk-garage-black-metal piece from hell. Tons of charms! The third track called Chosen To Rule Comming From Ocean Depths With The Golden Trident (Neptune Bloodline), moves further into... weirdness. A slightly warped/psychedelic garage feel with those blood-soaked vocals from hell, a very strange improvised piece which starts with something.. and then goes into a muted pause... and then continues again. Imagine early Mayhem sharing a drunken session with the Brainbombs. Even elements of heroic guitar-melodies in here!
Fourth track Inside the Temple of Poseidon goes away from the live garage feel, and enters a piece not that far away from the first track King Atlas. Evocative and moody guitar-work and evil vocals as at work here. It then continues into the fifth track From Cleito´s Womb, which totally goes into an ambient-soundscape without the black metal influence. Drone-like ritual voice-hummings with minimalistic guitar-strings being slightly touched, I think there is also a wrapped and flanged synth in there (somewhere). Actually a very beautiful piece of atmospheric eerieness here. Sixth track O Rei Bruxo Tita Primodial (almost 30 minutes in length!) goes back into the live-garage feel, without the black-metal feel again. Improvised ritualistic evil stuff, the kind of stuff that...oozes out of your speakers. Still not in the thoughtful and high-tech corner, but who cares. It´s evil, chaotic, and incredible easy-listening for the hard of hearing. Lovely sound-effects on the vocals here people. Last track Kthonic Dynasty Of Evenor And Leucippe ends the album in the same way the first track started the album, a sinister dungeon-piece with evil and evocative vocals.
And that is that. Funny, primitive, and evil sounding black-metal-stuff at it´s weirdest. Try to imagine Evil Dead meets The Residents over a drunkard teenage satanic ritual, yup. It´s THAT weird, and it´s THAT challenging. Not a drop of boringness on this album.
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