Band: Impurity / Satanicristo
Country: Brazil
Label: Wolfkult Religion
Format: Split 7″ EP
Year: 2025
Extreme Metal from Brazil that heavily leans on the legendary sound of the 80’s. That is what Wolfkult Religion is set to offer with a split between Impurity and Satanicristo. One, still alive after being around since the 80’s, the other, spawned in 2017 out of the ashes of Sarcófago, Holocausto and Mutilator. United in their country of origin, a few shared band members and in their decidation to keep the extreme amalgam of Thrash, Death and Black Metal with its typical South American enthusiasm alive.
On side A we find Impurity, with the track ‘Desecrating The Sarcristy’, their first newly released material since 2020. Those that have fond memories of the band’s 1993 album ‘The Lamb’s Fury’ will instantly recognize the whirling, chopping chaos of the band. While evidently musically not a whole lot has changed, anno 2025 the band has a heavier tuning, adding an almost Doomy element in the slower sections. Otherwise, the unhinged reverbed vocals, battering drums and maelstrom of choppy guitars keeps exactly that untamed spirit of the 80’s alive. The product is a song that is heavier sounding and closer to the old traditions than the band’s last full-length, the in 2020 released ‘Satan’s Will be Done’, and I’m sure that those that yearned for a sound that leaned more on the band’s earliest beginnings will welcome this with open arms.
Flipping over to side B, the old souls in the new body called Satanicristo present a follow up to their 2024 EP ‘Bastardizing the Holiness’ with their contribution to the split, ‘Rite of Desecration’. Once again they offer a chunky, at times chugging guitar with recognisable riffs amongst thundering drums, barking vocals and accenting church bells. Death Metal riffing, Black Metal atmosphere and a Thrash foundation chucked in a blender, resulting in a chunky and whirling sound that might as well could have been placed 30-40 years back in time.
South American Black/Death/Thrash Metal from some of the members that made the scene big in the 80’s still feels very alive in 2025. Complete with the same wild and unhinged spirit of the formative years of Brazilian extreme Metal, those 150 copies pressed on vinyl might not last long, so you better not take your chance if you’re into the old school sound.
