CAPILLA ARDIENTE - EP DOOM CHILE

[joeyramone]

 

Doom from Chile - what a magic phrase ...

Lol, actually the name these doomsters selected for their band may hint to a "sport" a few black metallers used to practise some years ago!

 

Capilla Ardiente is a fantastic band from Santiago del Chile, the brainchild of Felipe Plaza Kutzbach and Claudio Botarro who also play in another great Chilean doom band Procession (just listen to their 2009 massive EP The Cult Of Disease and you’ll love them!).

Their debut EP, Solve Et Coagula, arrived yesterday with the mail and since yesterday it’s going on my mp3 player in a loop.

The album is out on the German label High Roller Records as vinyl and on Eyes Like Snow Records as CD. I bought it through faithful Black Widows Records on-line shop.

 

Now, the joke on their band’s name ...

Capilla Ardiente basically means “burning church”! Well, I should be more precise: it actually means “burning chapel”, intended as the place where the recently deceased receive their funeral (namely, their house, a church or any other specific place), usually lighted by many funeral candles.

So the atmosphere evoked by the band’s name is surely grim.

But there’s no sign of corpse painting, bleak screaming or raw tunes here. Capilla Ardiente are surely vehicles of unholy music but in a form of magic, old-school, traditional heavy doom metal played in a stellar way and adorned with some awesome vocals.

The EP is less than half a hour but it’s so good that makes you ask for more!

Felipe Plaza Kutzbach and Claudio Botarro are the band’s masterminds and provide churning riffs plus almost opera-like, regal but husky voice and pulsing low bass tones, respectively. But in the construction of the mighty tunes in the two long tracks of the EP the duo is helped by Alejandro Arce from Mar de Grises for powerful drumming and Quincy Hevia for enforcements on the guitar parts.

 

As Ed from Doommantia commented in his review, “there is nothing original here, the sound and style is straight from the textbook of Solitude Aeturnus, Candlemass, Black Sabbath etc but its blended magnificently with influences that seem to come from early Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate and even Cirith Ungol.”

But Capilla Ardiente, as well as the sister band Procession, are new herald bands for heavy doom and their releases are mandatory.

 

Felipe and Claudio are working on a full length album which should be ready during early 2011.

This gem together with the coming full-length album by monster Procession should keep any doomster warm in the first winter months.

 

In the meantime, some useful instructions for the perfect doom headbanging:

“Even the most stoic listener will move his head in slow motion when undergoing part one, 'Solve'. Part two 'Coagula' has some more mid-to-uptempo parts, but still allows for slow and approving nods.” (from Lords Of Metal webzine)

 

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