EXORDIUM MORS

    AS LEGENDS FADE AND GODS DIE (2022)

Ocho años han trascurrido desde el anterior álbum de los neozelandeses que regresan con un nuevo trabajo de un sonido black que ya casi puede ser calificado como propio. Si bien en anteriores obras su sonido se nutria de forma interesada o no de elementos de podrimos encuadrar dentro del thrash dando como resultado un black sucio y ecléctico con influencias difuminadas entre estilos como el anteriormente mencionado como thrash o el death. Para este nuevo álbum han llevado su propuesta un paso más allá en la búsqueda de un sonido denso, caótico y disonante muchas veces, que sumerge al oyente en una amalgama de ambientación surrealista muchas veces. Un álbum ambicioso en cuanto a influencias y sobre todo si hablamos de lograr plasmar todas ellas de manera concreta y concisa hasta conformar el sonido poderoso del álbum. Estamos ante una propuesta que en su base se nutre de un primitivo black metal que en esencia se puede encuadrad dentro de la escuela helena, incluso sin renunciar a una ambientación fría y oscura inherente al conjunto. Sin embargo los riffs tienen un protagonismo particular, por un lado gracias a una particular versión del thrash primitivo que son capaces de elaborar al tiempo que no renuncia a un estilo particular mucho más actual y propio del sonido de Exordium Mors. No podmeos pasar por alto una batería esquizofrénica que tanto se adentra por pasajes rápidos, directos y veloces, como por otros en donde no dejan de sorprender por sus cambios de ritmo, con sutiles disonancias que van poblando el conjunto y dando un enfoque muy particular. Por otro lado tenemos también melodías que se van colando de forma sutil en el conjunto, haciendo acto de aparición cuando la música se adentra por terrenos del todo violento y brutales, ejerciendo estas melodías de catalizador de la propuesta. Las voces se presentan también con una faceta directa y agresiva, con suficiente particularidad en cuanto a matices que las alejan muchas veces de la agresividad y crudeza que se le puede presuponer a un black/thrash al uso, para adentrarse por terrenos que abarcan diferentes estilos dentro del metal extremo. Un álbum que en conjunto resulta denso y potente, con una propuesta diferencial con respecto a otras bandas y que ha dado un paso en la búsqueda de una identidad propia en cuanto a sonido. (7,6).

Praetorian Sword Records

1. I Saw Oblivion 05:57  

2. A Pyrrhic Sacrament 04:12  

3. Flesh of the Heathen 08:25  

4. Surrounded by Serpents (I Am...) 04:23   

5. Crown of Dust 07:30  

6. Torn Asunder (Damnatio Ad Bestias) 04:47  

7. The Triumphator 08:06  

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EXORDIUM MORS

Origen: Nueva Zelanda, Auckland

Formados: 2004

Estilo: Black, death, thrash

Temática: Antireligión, paganismo romando y muerte

Enlaces: Bandcamp, Exordium mors y facebook

Miembros:

• Assailant Bajo y voces
• Black Mortum Guitarra y voces
• The Nomad Batería
• Santi Guitarra y voces

Discografía:

• Rehearsal 24-11-06 Demo 2006  
• Serva Ad Mors Demo 2007
• Verus Hostis - A Hymn to Fire EP 2010  
• Hellstorm of Fire and Chaos Split video 2011  
• Sacrifice, Perish and Demise EP 2012
• The Apotheosis of Death CD 2014
• Surrounded By Serpents Single 2019
• As Legends Fade and Gods Die CD 2022
• Sworn to Heresy EP 2025

SACRIFICE, PERISH AND DEMISE (2012) 

Cuatro temas son los integran este Ep de neozelandeses Exordium Mors, banda que poco a poco va recuperando la normalidad de una banda al ir editado nuevo material de manera más regular. Cuatro temas como comentaba de black metal totalmente y perfectamente combinados con una buena dosis thrash sobre todo en los buenos riffs y una actitud muy ruda, agresiva y rápida, aunque también se dejan entrever algún atisbo de death, quedando como resultado final unas composiciones variadas con constantes cambios de ritmo, crudas en  todo momento, pero sonando precisas en todas sus facetas. El apartado vocal se mueve también en un terreno black thrash bastante correcto. Un Ep que se cierra con la versión del "Black Metal" de Venom que sin sonar diferente a las otras revisiones acaba por cumplir y dar consistencia a un Ep bastante solido y que no hace más que refrendar la buena salud con la que cuenta la escena en el país. (8,2).

Hells Vomit Poductions

1. Sign of Judas' Liege 06:05

Chorus: Blood runs down... My sex slave's tortured cunt Leave the body underground Marking Judas' Liege I only come out in the infernal darkness Giving birth to rotting pestilence The one whom raped the succubus Turned her into slime I live for the sole purpose Of creating a stillborn holding eternal fire The immortal dragon spewing pestilence Rendering supremacy unto the pure and holy Chorus Picking up cold, dead corpses Running my fingers up and down crooked spines Puking into rotting cunt-flesh Suckling on all the slime My cock violently penetrates dusty uterus The bloody rites almost completed And my purpose almost consumed My cold, dead druidic bride shall birth my unholy fetus Bridge: Rotting in pestilence It is feeding me unholiness Tantalising my amok senses Creating a new era of defilement Chorus Brandishing new tools for unholy decimation The sign of the new age is nigh... The cold, dead druidic bride gives birth To the new barbaric sign The coming of a new age The age of Judas' Liege No light shall come from your deceitful mage And a new light shall come from my undead sons To engulf the world and make it moan Like the whores whom I overthrow The raping is complete My bastard sons are born From cold, dead breasts They were fed blood Writhing, feeding, seething Barbaric, slaughter, violating Rotting, mutilating, debauchery Of this soulless, defiled corpse Eaten through the wombs Of their long-dead druidic mothers Gripping with cold flesh United as brothers Rotting in pestilence Living eternal throughout the epochs Judas' Liege is forever immortal Dawn of a new age heralded eternal Bridge I am the god who... Decimates the feeble ones... The demon Incubus... Breeding only strong sons... The Eternal Dragon... Feasting on flesh of the meek... Judas' Liege... Scourge of the Weak... Rot in Pestilence You fucking Christian Whore   

2. Ancestors' Call 05:02

"mortua heic ego sum et sum cinis, is cinis terrast: sein est terra dea, ego sum dea, mortua non sum" Ashes to ashes, I shall fall Dust to dust, please heed my call I venerate you... oh ancient ones Whom cannot see... Helios' golden sun Veni, vidi, vici... scarred onto my soul Your legacy eternal... exhumed from your earthy hole With your life permanently halfway in the gutter you bet it's true With vengeful, vacant, glassy eyes, Death is eternally watching you Milk and blood... daily I shall sacrifice Rotting... wraiths shall feast in delight Libitina's claws... hound our every turn In honour... I cast animal flesh to burn I beseech you all to hear the truth or you'll live your life as a slave Heed your Ancestors' Call as soon you will be joining them in the grave Ashes to ashes, I shall fall Dust to dust, please heed my call (Your) Last breath, my breath as we gaze unto eternity My death, your death as the ancestral line beckons thee Their legacy, my leprosy and death the final victory Their death, my breath as I succumb to infinity With open arms, I embrace the Cthonic (As father to a child) Once life is breathed onto you... Death ruthlessly pursues Envious, the unborn are watching you... Their hatred shall never subdue As darkness suffocates your view... Only Hades shall await you The ancestors beckon to greet you... Heed their call and torment will not ensue "From my rotting body Flowers shall grow And I am in them And that is eternity" So believe me now, the hymn is true When you're six feet down, blackened and blue Or if your remains are cast among the seas Or your ashes are left floating in the breeze Remember this tale, before you fall And heed the Ancestors Call

3. Exordium Mors (Pagan Ritual and Sacrifice to Roman Gods) 07:03

  Exordium Mors….

Bringing a fresh, naked virgin to the altar

To sacrifice to their elder god

Their incestuous emperor of perversion

Caligula, saviour of the defiled

Ordering his warriors first to rape

Until her blood runs cold

In this temple that was once holy

Sacrilege is now its whole

Pre-Chorus:

Prey on sexual deviances 

Pray to sexual predators 

Idolatry made of flesh 

To sin is to bless

Caligula, no longer just a mortal

Made into the immortal god of depravity

Commands this royal defilement in heretic god’s temple

In a pagan ritual of virgin sacrifice to appease his insanity….

Spilling her sacrificial blood all over the place

In the presence of her lord and master

Bound and fettered, the incense in the air thick and heavy

Struggling and fighting to no avail, what a disaster

There’s no blood quite as dark than a Virgin's blood

As he too takes part in this soiled ritual

And rapes her with glee and without mercy

Swearing to her that her sacrifice is beneficial

Sodomizing

In front of Jupiter

Virginity

Is no longer

Brutality

Is given a whole new form

Raping

Until she is no more

Chorus:

Defiling and destroying

All the old pagan laws

A new Roman god has come forth

And will consecrate Exordium Mors

Exordium Mors…

After he was done with her, left with nothing but cum

He ordered his soldiers with one last wish

His madness summoned this abominable fun

To slit her open from her clit and upwards

Ravishing her pure virgin body, one last time

Pleased with this sacrifice he ordered her burnt

Even though she was still breathing, clearly alive

This was their tyrannical king, Caligula, god of depravity

Chorus

Lust and pain are nothing but a game 

To their god, master and emperor

Under his reign, many shall suffer

There is no remorse, for he is Caligula 

Commander of Exordium Mors

Pulsating and bleeding, many more have suffered

Exordium Mors

No mercy or remorse given, more sacrifices are offered

Exordium Mors

Bridge:

Exordium

Exordium

Exordium

Mors

Solo

Bridge repeat

Sacrificing

More and more victims

Reigning

On slaughter and bloodshed

Brutality

Is given a whole new form

Ruling

Forever more

Pre-Chorus repeat

Caligula, no longer just a mortal

Made into the immortal god of depravity

He never stops feasting on torture, cruelty and bloodshed

In sacrilegious rites made immortal through suffering and death

Made infamous through butchery and brutality

His monstrous acts of defilement will be known for centuries

Abhorrent but powerful no one dared to defy him

And so more sacrifices were made to his Imperial Majesty 

Darkness engulfed ancient Rome, as madness commanded more

And a drunken and sacrilegious orgy took place in the temple of the Gods

A malicious act of defilement against the old pagan ways

And with blood, suffering and death the Romans paid

Ruling Ancient Rome with an iron divinity

Reigning on bloodshed, death and cruelty

Barbarism unleashed without mercy

Exordium Mors

Persecution given to those who don’t give votive offerings

Sacrifices must be made with full acrimony

Paganism given in extreme quantities 

Exordium Mors (x2)

Exordium Mors (x4)

4. Black Metal (Venom cover) 03:29

 *Lyrics slightly different than traditional Venom*

Black is the night metal we fight 

Power amps set to explode 

Energy screams magic and dreams 

Satan records their first note. 

We chime the bell chaos in hell 

Metal for maniacs pure. 

Fast melting steel fortune on wheels 

Brain haemorrhage is the cure

For 

BLACK METAL 

BLACK METAL 

BLACK METAL 

BLACK METAL 

BLACK METAL

Lay down your soul to the gods rock `n' roll 

Thrashing so wild nobody's mild 

Giving it all that you've got. 

Wild is so right metal tonight 

Faster than over the top

Open the core enter hells door 

Black is the code for tonight 

Atomic force feel no remorse 

Crank up the amps now it's night 

BLACK METAL

BLACK METAL 

BLACK METAL

BLACK METAL

BLACK METAL 

lay down your soul to the gods rock `n' roll 

metal ten fold through the deadly black hole 

riding hells stallions bareback and free 

taking our chances with raw energy 

Come ride the night with us 

Rock hard and fight 

United my legions we stand 

Trash hard and wild for us 

Give up your souls 

Live by Satan's left hand 

666

Against the odds black metal gods 

Fight to achieve our goal 

Casting a spell leather and hell 

Black metal gods rock `n' roll 

Building up steam nuclear screams 

Warheads are ready to fight 

Black leather hounds faster than sound 

Metal our purpose in life

BLACK METAL 

BLACK METAL

BLACK METAL

BLACK METAL 

Lay down your soul to the gods rock `n' roll 

BLACK METAL

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