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Good musicianship but vocals are too cartoony - 60%
If you like your blackened death metal kept old school straightforward and melodic, with singing you can at least hear if not necessarily understand (because the lyrics are in Portuguese), then this EP recorded by Brazilian band Vulturine in 2013 might be worth a listen. It's not very fast by death metal standards but it travels at a brisk pace for the most part. Black metal tremolo guitars are clear and the vocal is mostly clean with enough of a gruff edge to keep it tough and menacing.
"O Funesto Pulsar da Atordoante Energia Negativa" is a meandering track, a bit too loose perhaps for the structure it has, but it sets up the dark and melancholy mood for what is to follow. The one English-language track "The Creed of Nothingness" is more of a rocking song with a treated demon vocal. The music is quite good although the singing gets a bit corny. The next couple of tracks also feature some good guitar work and drumming but the singing goes overboard with the theatrics. The final track introduces some cold ambience to give the music a slight doomy feel.
Well if vocalist Vlad de Hades hadn't got so carried away with his caterwauling, this would have been a fairly good example of melodic black / death metal verging on mainstream heavy metal. A bit more discipline in the singing section and maybe a tighter style of playing, with some fast tracks among the slow, and this EP would be much better than it is.
