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KRISIUN
Mortem Solis

Century Media (2022)
Rating: 8/10

Through all their brutality over the years, Brazilian death metallers Krisiun have become a tried, tested and trusted trio of aggression; a band that sticks to its guns, rarely lets the fans down and delivers hard-hitting menace.

As expected, Mortem Solis is a hammering tide of brutality and rampant consistency heralded by the barbaric bombardment of the growling ‘Serpent Messiah’, which is propelled further down the throat by those gruff vocal traits of bassist Alex Camargo.

Krisiun’s releases – all 12 of them, including this one – have become harder to review because we know what they are going to bring to the table; flashes of technicality in the solos, but for the most part out-and-out devastation that took the mid-90s by storm and hasn’t relented since. It could be argued that Krisiun have become the masters of the prolific, the only issue being that their tense breed of death metal takes numerous listens so as to be able to single out specific cuts.

Mortem Solis just pummels and obliterates without mercy. There’s no time for breath, no respite amidst the torrents of gnarly percussion, the convulsive bass lines and that wild, flailing axe tone as ‘Swords Into Flesh’ mercilessly bats you away with a flick of its steely finger.

Words such as “sinister” and “demonic” constantly spring to mind particularly with the savagery of ‘Sworn Enemies’ and the crushing ‘Necronomical’, but it’s all here, full on maniacal blistering death metal. There’s no real diversity, but then again, why should there be? ‘Worm God’ annihilates, ‘’Temple Of The Abattoir’ is complexly destructive and ‘War Blood Hammer’ is just a warn-torn expression of musical hatred.

Krisiun sets out, as it always has done, to create bloody storms of utmost malice built upon raging speed and infernal dynamics. Mortem Solis won’t disappoint, it just can’t; it’s music for the bloodied battle zone that forms a volatile blitzkrieg that no other trio could replicate. Detractors may argue that there’s just an all-too generic feel and I understand that. In fact, Krisiun has rarely been a go to band for me, but I cannot deny the impact of the tumult they unleash and for that I commend them.

Neil Arnold

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