Morte Incandescente — Relembrando Um Tumulo Esquecido
Contrary to what happened on other Morte Incandescente releases the vocals here are all in portuguese and I think this is a very welcome choice, as it keeps the album authentic and fresh to my ears. It's possible that it's just the effect of hearing an exotic foreign language, and that the same might sound cheesy to portuguese-trained ears, but I don't think it matters much. It happens to me when I listen to the intelligible Italian vocals from the equally excellent band Tenebrae In Perpetuum, but that doesn't make their songs any less good.I guess that being able to understand lyrics is not a good thing for black metal.
Morte Incandescente's trademark crude and mean sound dwindles from suicidal moments to more fast and ugly bits, so the album benefits of good variations in intensity that make things interesting. The constant switching of moods, timbre and intent keeps ears alert and heads banging.
Several pictures of a destroyed (or better, abandoned) cemetery in the booklet accompany the album, and these nicely completing the atmosphere evoked by its rotten, redundant and malignant sounds.
In conclusion "...Relembrando Um Tumulo Esquecido" is very good and I believe it could easily become one of Morte Incandescente's classics. In my opinion it stands well along their best productions and I sincerely recommend it as an example of how black metal should be played