As anyone who has tried to operate as a two piece band knows, that stuff is hard to do, at least successfully anyway, with many bands resorting to punky two minute blasts to accommodate the lack of options their setup presents. By all accounts the setup of the band should not work as well as it ultimately does. This could be a problem for fans of the initial mixes, who have probably placed value in the cold atmosphere created by the (most likely) primitive original recordings.Īs for the music, the more I think about it the more odd it seems. However, knowing the poor financial resources of most metal bands and limited or expensive technology available at the millennial turning point, it would not surprise me if the fresh production efforts that manage to make these reissues sound modern and simultaneously big yet sharp serve as a stark contrast to the sound of the originals. Having not listened to the original pressings of either of these two reissues, I cannot comment on how this recent run has altered from the originals. Their brand of black metal is primed to make classic records in the right hands - as melodic as Satanic Warmaster in parts, as furious as Marduk in others, with extended riff sections to evoke that drifting feeling of Burzum's 'Filosofem'. Plus they formed in Colombia, which as far as grim and frostbitten goes, it kinda isn't. This is only my educated presumption into the source of Inquisition's 19 records, 'Invoking the Majestic Throne of Satan' and 'Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult' respectively, being reissued by Season of Mist with fresh sepulchral artwork by Paolo Girardi.īefore listening to Inquisition it should be remembered that this is just two guys making all this noise, guitar and drums, and they recreate this stuff live competently. Doubtless, 'Verses.' put Inquisition on the radar for many people, and when such a thing occurs after so many years of prior material it is natural that a revived interest in the band's discography should arise. The metal press salivated over it, as did I to a lesser degree, and doubtlessly sparked interest from a new generation and audience into what Inquisition were all about. Last year Inquisition blew away their existing fan base and a host of new fans with their brilliant 'Obscure Verses for the Multiverse'. Look at Enslaved, or Carcass, for example. In contrast to so many other genres, metal artists will often age like wine, making yet more progressive, original, fresh, fantastically written material as time goes on. That's a band as old as this writer is, playing a niche style for over two decades, so you'd expect them to be good at it by now. 'Starting in 1988 as a thrash outfit, Inquisition adopted the moniker we know in 1989, leaving behind their thrash roots to adopt their signature black metal sound in the mid nineties.
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