INQUISITION (Washington state, U.S.)

INQUISITION is black metal from Washington state, U.S. At this time the most recent information on Facebook says,"We have an album completed," and that is as of December 24, 2019. No further information seems available. The most recent studio album is called Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith from 2016. Below are some excerpts from Metal Archives' four very positive reviews of said album. Metal Archives also shows two live albums released in 2018. At any rate, below you can listen to the critically-acclaimed 2016 album, their seventh studio album.

"If you have a dark side or would like to discover it, this is the perfect soundtrack for your journey. Inquisition convinces with its unique approach without any compromises or experiments consisting of one hour of evil musical rituals developing a bleak fascination. It's the kind of music to listen to on your own in your own private space to dream yourself far away to a place of cold, mystery and terror which can be both enchanting and liberating depending on your mental approach to this release. ''Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith'' has tons of atmosphere, authenticity and depth to convince. The more you listen to it, the more this release will suck you in. The highly recommendable limited special edition includes a great bonus track, a simple but cool patch and a full color flag for your musical rituals. If you have an affinity for atmospheric black metal, you simply can't get around this release."

"Even if very little of the music here is surprising to any fan, it's probably the most encompassing experience I've yet heard from this band. Of course, most debates around this album will resort to the love-or-hate traits they've had from the start. Detractors be damned in hellfire: Dagon's voice sounds even more foreboding now than ever, and the pair have drawn from an ever-deeper depth of atmosphere. To say Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar is one of the year's finest statements in black metal could have been just as easily assumed before the first track was released. No, it's the fact that Inquisition are still managing to top themselves after twenty-plus years and seven albums that makes Bloodshed such a monument."

"Frankly, this is surely one of the bands’ most masterfully-crafted and enjoyable albums on the whole with barely anything really wrong featured and the power and aggression of their usual material melded alongside the epic melodies working into their sound that this is a must-have record for anyone remotely into black metal or extreme metal in general."

"Moreover, with regard to the impressive mixture of transcendental, rabid, melodic and sinister guitars, I predict that the seventh full-length of Columbia's best musical ambassadors will not sink into oblivion. Rather, the formation belongs to the very few bands that give the black community both the necessary stability and a constantly fresh mentality. With that in mind, I cover myself with the Inquisition flag of the digibox and turn out the light. The waiting for the eighth output has begun."

Biography: The band Inquisition was formed in 1988 in Cali, Colombia by Dagon. The band started as a thrash metal act, and in 1994 evolved into raw black metal. In 1996, Dagon left Colombia and moved back to the United States to continue Inquisition and search for a new drummer. That same year Dagon met Incubus, who joined the band on drums and the creation of their debut full length album began. This line-up has remained stable for more than fifteen years and is now seen as the classic Inquisition line-up.

INQUISITION style of black metal involves slow, deep and dark riffing combined with sudden tempo changes to faster sections based around blast beats and high-speed riffing; at times adding melodic solos. The classic Inquisition sound incorporates a combination of early era thrash metal-influenced riffing with darker and more chaotic black metal, primarily involving fast, tremolo picked minor-key guitar riffs, thus creating the trademark "Inquisition sound".

Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar Beyond The Celestial Zenith by Inquisition

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