The Oath of Bacco Militia

I heard about Necromessiah before, but never actually heard their music until I got this 7”. Neither did I know anything about Dewarsteiner, but when I surprisingly saw some local (Israeli) records shop selling this split on eBay for just a few bucks and read that it was released on such a great, dedicated label as Crush Until Madness – I decided to take my chances and bought it immediately.

So what do we have here? This nice half black/half white 7” was pressed in 500 hand numbered copies and features 2 songs from each one of these Italian and Antichrist bands, which play pretty similar unholy Black/Thrash. Necromessiah’s music somehow reminds me of Gehennah, it’s mostly characterized by raw and dirty Rock n’ Roll riffs with a low sound, well felt bass presence and harsh and drunken Black Metallish vokillz. Both of the songs, “Kill the Pope” and “Nekro Alkohol Terrorist” praise the usual vital issues – Metal., AlKohol and Anti-Christianity. Typical traditional stuff, but not bad at all.

While having a pretty similar sound and concept, Dewarsteiner (I wonder what the Hell this title means!) sounds more Punkish to me, and though I have nothing against such influences in this Genre, I still prefer the Necromessiah’s stuff, which sounds less disposable to me. The song “Wasted Bier” deals with hatred towards the hot summer, when the bEEr gets hot and disgusting. Cool song and somehow it even seems to be more “original” than many other nowadays Black/Thrash, since I can’t recall another song dealing with this issue, hehe… The second song “Black Box Absorbes” talks about some mental disease… I’ll take a wild guess and say that it’s about Metal madness… Average stuff… Not more, not less.

Overall – I can’t say that I don’t like this split, since there’s nothing really BAD I can say about it, but it’s definitely not a must have, there are already enough bands who played this very stuff before and did it better. But if you have an opportunity to get it for a cheap price – get it.
Necromessiah: 7.5/10, Dewarsteiner: 6.5/10. Average: 70.