It all assembles into a profane alchemical reaction, through sheer will and black magic indeed. Bass reverberates menacingly like the impending stampede of devils and demons. Guitars are inhumanly fast and consistent, slowing to potent grooves before injecting some adrenaline into the track with mile-a-minute riffs. Drums are the perfect marriage of punked-out and blasting rhythms representing each side admirably. What the quartet achieve here is one of the most heady mixtures of black and thrash metal I’ve heard in quite some time. At any rate, this provides an aural sword to hold at the neck of God no matter your reasoning. Then again, I won’t rule it out still due to how puritanical the US is becoming in other, more harmful ways. If DAEVA existed in the time of Satanic Panic, we’d be having a congressional hearing about them. Between its on-the-sleeve blasphemy and hammering delivery that could pry open the gates of heaven, Through Sheer Will And Black Magic… is the sound of angels dying. This is the kind of stuff that you truly feel depraved for listening to.
The stylistic difference is staggering though – where Crypt Sermon were classically indebted doom/heavy metal with a fantastical take on the battle between the righteous and occult, DAEVA are immensely, firmly, outrageously at war with God. Even better, a staggering three members of Crypt Sermon, one of the best bands out, make up this band’s legion of hellhounds. DAEVA‘s eruptive arrival in our realm with their first LP is a welcomed event for someone like me. Blackened thrash? Fuck my shit all the way up. Love thrash, love black metal (sometimes).
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