CONCILIUM

While a new band, Concilium are bastions of the Portuguese musical underworld, with main member/songwrtier N. and collaborators Vulturius and Occelensbrigg having years of experience in shaping their country’s small but thriving underground to what it is today, through various campaigns and collaborations over the years that have established them as corner pieces to their scene across the rise and fall of many obscure Portuguese black and death metal bands, existing and defunct, old and new. N. forged his talents and visions in such Portuguese aural plagues like Summon and Hate Propaganda, and Concilium is his brainchild and outlet to an inner underworld dominated by hallucinations of finality, agony, and hopelessness. Handling all songwriting, composition, artwork (under the Belial Necroarts banner), and guitars and vocals during recording, N. is then joined in the project’s final recording stages of the studio setting by Vulturius handling drums (Irae, Kommando Baphomet, Necrobode, Morte Incandescente and many more) and by Occelensbrigg on bass, thus completing the circle of Concilium’s sound: a nightmarish trip into the pits of hell where the historic sounds of violent and apocalyptic bands like Pseudogod, Blasphemy, Proclamation and Beherit are deconstructed and pulverized, whipped into a new spectral and decaying shape by heavy doses of decrepit and agonizing raw/depressive black metal and submerged into aphotic and subterranean realms with a masterful texturing of sulphureous atmospheres and diseased esoteric dirges.