Consider the name chosen by the Salvadoran band Satanic Priest. Then consider the name they chose for their forthcoming debut album: …Of Blasphemies and Lust, which fittingly will be released by a UK label named Vicious Witch. Then add to that the album’s cover art, and the fact that their brand of music is a flame-throwing, turbocharged amalgam of black thrash and speed metal.
All these signs point to an unpretentious old-school devotion to all things 666 and an equal devotion to alcohol-fueled, pedal-to-the-metal sonic barbarity geared toward giving listeners an adrenaline rush. What you might not guess so far, but what you’ll figure out when you listen to the song we’re premiering today with a lyric video, is that Satanic Priest are also fiendishly good songwriters.
The name of the song is “Wolves Among Sheep“. It has an interesting and effective construction, and it’s formidable proof that even for a band who are skilled at racing hell-for-leather and as maniacally savage as rabid wolves (wolves, of course), they recognize the importance of a gripping melody.
For roughly the first minute and a half, the band establish the melody at the heart of this song, a simple and sad melody traced through a slow seven-note progression that rings clearly and continues to repeat, joined by grieving bass notes, a hard kick-drum punch, the whip-crack of the snare, and quick tom-drum rumbles.
The cymbal counts down toward something else.. and the something else ignites in an immediately electrifying riff. The rhythm section give it the gas, and the song takes off, boiling and blaring, battering and galloping, fronted by rabid snarls that bark the band’s blasphemous devil-spawned mantras — they proudly proclaim they are wolves among sheep, brandishing the inverted cross.
There’s no let-up in the songs’ thrashing and racing, no dialing back of the voltage, but you’ll still hear that opening melody in the midst of this blazing war-charge, transformed into tremolo’d adaptations that are more fiery and also more desperate but still recognizable — and just as sorrowful at the end as at the beginning.
SATANIC PRIEST is:
Priest of Whores (Aldair Mejía – vocals): Sepulchral Vomits
Sadomaniac (Rodrigo Salguero – guitar): Black Strings from Chaos
Bïer Bömber (Rob Malcoms – bass): Black Strings from Hell
Necroblaster (Gabriel Puente – drums) Necropercution of Tombs
…Of Blasphemies and Lust was recorded by Morbid Miasma at Vispera del Demonio Estudio (El Salvador), and was mixed and mastered by Cristian León of Lion’s Roar Studio (Chile). It will be released by Vicious Witch Records on CD format on May 20th. For more info, check out the links below.
VICIOUS WITCH:
https://viciouswitch.com/
https://www.facebook.com/viciouswitchrecords
https://www.instagram.com/viciouswitchrecords/
https://viciouswitchrecords.bandcamp.com/
SATANIC PRIEST:
https://satanicpriest.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/satanicpriestband
https://www.instagram.com/satanicpriestband/