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2021

On The Ride

SHADOW REBELS
2021

Ultimum Lupus

FAUSTTOPHEL
2020

Vile Masters Of Mankind

NATURA MORTA
2019

No Liars Among The Fallen

FAUSTTOPHEL
2019

Sirens

EDELLOM
2019

Dziesięć

TRANQUILIZER 247
2019

47

SHADOW REBELS
2019

Wings

FAUSTTOPHEL
2019

War

ADES NUMEN
2019

Breath Of Phobetor

ADES NUMEN
2018

Gray Painted Garden

INIRA
2018

Never Pretend

LOCUS TITANIC FUNUS
2018

Uncovered Fears

CIRCLE STORY
2018

Poetry Of Ruins

ADFAIL
2018

Arkveid

ARKVEID
2016

Escape From The Black Iced Forest

QAANAAQ
2016

Cathedral Of The Black Cult

BLACK CULT
2016

Leave

SCARED TO LIVE
2016

Sancta Simplicitas

FAUSTTOPHEL
2016

Fragmented Consciousness

DAN DEAGH WEALCAN
2015

Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth

XPUS
2015

Oversleep Hurricane

SHADOW REBELS
2015

Circles. EP

JOINTSTEREO
2015

Feel

MRIYA ZHYTTYA
2015

Echoes Follower

MY LAST SOLACE
2014

The Replacement

AZATHOTH CIRCLE
2014

Mindless Mass

LEAVE THE CIRCUS
2014

Anywhere Is Everywhere

THANKS FOR YOUR PAIN
2014

Distorted Reality

THE PAINTS OF PAST MEMORIES
2014

Sledgehammer

POMSTA
2014

Cyclicity

WINGS IN MOTION
2013

Abyss

MOROR
2013

Thirst Of Oblivion

FAUSTTOPHEL
2013

Castus Lacrima

LOCUS TITANIC FUNUS

REVIEWS

LEGACY #134

Die ukrainisch-russische Melodic-Death-/Black-Metal-Formation FAUSTTOPHEL hatte in ihrer Geschichte schon einige Tiefschläge zu verdauen, da drei ihrer Mitglieder bzw. engen Vertrauten verstarben. Zwischenzeitlich löste sich die Band sogar auf. Seit 2009 sind sie erneut aktiv und haben mittlerweile drei Alben in der Diskografie. Das letzte Album „No Liars Among The Fallen“ erschien 2019. Der Anlass der neuen EP „Ultimum Lupus“ ist, wie sollte es anders sein, der Tod eines Ex-Mitglieds, nämlich Svaromir Golunsky, der letztes Jahr verschied. Irgendwie seltsam, aber natürlich auch traurig. Und die Tracks klingen definitiv nicht, als wären sie in einer fröhlichen Hochphase entstanden. Mit Wolfsgeheul und ordentlich Wut im Bauch startet „das Lied des Wolfes“ ‘Canticum Lupus’. Rasend schneller Black Death mit Ausflügen in den Black Thrash wechselt sich mit kleinen hymnischen Sequenzen ab. ‘Ultimum Lupus’ – „der letzte Wolf“ – beginnt dagegen ruhig, sphärisch und düster, bevor klassischer Death/Black mit sehr melodischen Parts und sogar einer Female Voice kombiniert werden. Das Outro stellt ein Lunar-Onlooker-Cover von ‘Mountains, Flame, Shades Of Time, Color – Take The Winner!’ dar. Dabei handelt es sich aber eher um russische Folklore als um Metal. Die Lyrics sind im Übrigen generell auf Russisch verfasst. Alles in allem ist „Ultimum Lupus“ ein durchwachsener Release. Als Tribute mag das seine Berechtigung haben. Dennoch bringt er kaum etwas Substanzielles oder gar Prägnantes mit.

7 Punkte
DH

 

A DIFFERENT SHADE OF BLACK METAL ZINE

Russia/Ukraine’s Fausttophel have returned with a new recording which shows the music going for a symphonic mixture of black, death and thrash metal from their previous releases and this is a review of their 2021 ep “Ultimum Lupus” which was released by Another Side Records.
The sounds of wolves start off the ep before going into a heavier musical direction while all of the instruments also sound very powerful. Vocals are done in mostly an angry shouting style that is more closer to thrash metal than previous releases along with the faster sections of the songs also adding in a great amount of blast beats.
Clean vocals can also be heard at times while the solos and leads are also done in a very melodic style. Melodies are also added into some of the guitar riffing along with some black metal screams also being utilized quite a bit throughout the recording recording as well as one of the tracks also b einf very long and epic in length.
Symphonic sounding keyboards can also be heard briefly along with one of the tracks also being very long and epic in length as well as some death metal growls also being utilized briefly, tremolo picking is also added into some of the faster riffing and the ep closes with a cover of Lunar Onlooker’s “Burn, The Flame, By Shades of Time, Take The Winning Color! which also adds in a brief use of spoken word parts. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover dark themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Fausttophel and if you are a fan of melodic and symphonic black, death and thrash metal, you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACK “Ultimum Lupus”.

8/10
OCCULTBLACKMETAL

 

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