'De l'Infâme et du Trépas' the 2nd album from French black metallers Supplices is my first time listening to the band and my immediate thoughts turned to the complex aural mysteries of Cultes Des Ghoules. 'De l'Infâme et du Trépas' isn't as intricate or as gloomily operatic as the Polish Necromantists but Supplices have concocted an eight track Grimoire of multilayered, rasping black metal fleshed out from hints of death and thickened by riffs of dioxide. Anguished vocals add to the toxicity of the album but rather than being overbearing which is an unfortunate trait of this type of music, the vocals are just about perfectly balanced within the overall sound.
'De l'Infâme et du Trépas' is a prime example of how far this genre has evolved since the primitive, scratchy sounds of the early days.What Supplices has presented to us is a multifaceted, darkly progressive, epicjourney into solemnity and despair.
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