SVEST

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SVEST
General information
Genre (s) Black metal
founding 1997
Current occupation
Spica
Darkkarma
former members
Drums
 Sad

SVEST is a French black metal band from Nantes , Pays de la Loire . The band name is an abbreviation for Satanas Vobiscum et Spiritum Tuo ( Latin ' Satan be with you and with your spirit'), a parody of the greeting Dominus vobiscum ('The Lord be with you') from the mass of the Roman Catholic Church and the Answer et cum spiritu tuo by the community.

Band history

SVEST was founded in 1997 by Spica and Darkkarma, ex-members of the band Asmodee. In 1998 and 1999 the demos Scarification of Soul and Death to Macrocosm appeared . In 2003 her debut album Urfaust was released . The work Coagula , published in 2005, is a new recording of the demos from 1998 and 1999. In 2008 the Split Veritas Diaboli manet in aeternum appeared with Deathspell Omega . The pieces contained on it were simultaneously published as EP Veritas Diaboli manet in aeternum: Le Diable est ma raison .

Music genre

The band is rooted in traditional black metal. hsinaV Xef Ihtraeth from the webzine My Heart Bleeds for You finds “a lot of talent and originality” in the style of the demos, it is “technical, unusual”. SVEST uses a “somewhat psychedelic lead guitar” on Urfaust , which is accompanied by a “clearly audible and lively bass” that “rumbles along in a full-toned manner”. The harmonies and tonal combinations are unusual. The drums are referred to by the Metal Observer as "barrage" and "permanent cacophony", Richard von Lurker describes the music as "cacophonic, violent, indefinitely psychedelic, trippy black metal noise"; while listening, you could think you were listening to "obscure, psychedelic krautrock from the past: bluesy , wavering and wrapped in a flashing lo-fi atmosphere" until the blast beats set in and you are reminded that you are listening to raw black metal. The sound on the split EP is compared by Les Éternels with that of Darkthrone at the time of A Blaze in the Northern Sky . The vocals on this are distorted, the riffs are repetitive, simple and "cold", the sound "exceptionally dirty and saturated to the max", making riff variations difficult to hear. The production was described by Zach Zimmerman as "tinny"; he describes the riffs as flowing, but the songs as rigid.

ideology

SVEST's publications appear in strictly limited editions. According to Unheilige Alliances, the band is "only known to the real scene-goers". Lyrically it builds on Satanism , which is the ideological basis of Black Metal and for Spica, the singer of the band, "very important and powerful". He describes his outlook as “a complex mixture of nihilism and misanthropy , a lot of hatred, thirst for knowledge and power. Perversion and the rejection of morality. ”In an earlier interview, Spica mentions that Satanism is more of a philosophy than a religion, but did not explain his way of thinking when asked.

Spica speaks out against politics in black metal; the music "should spread hatred, despair, darkness, pain etc. but of course not be propaganda for nature and life, as is the case with NS and paganism ". However, he relativizes this position: “Anyway, I am not against the Nazi stuff as long as it does not go hand in hand with the preservation of the so-called White Race. Because Black Metal is not only directed against Christianity, but also against the damn Jews and Muslim pigs. Sometimes it seems that some bands are ashamed of carrying out anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim propaganda. ”He also plays in the one-man band Cantus Bestiae and with this they released a split with the NSBM project Ad Hominem .

Discography

Demos

  • 1998: Scarification of Soul
  • 1999: Death to Macrocosm

Albums

  • 2003: Urfaust
  • 2005: Coagula

EPs

  • 2008: Veritas Diaboli manet in aeternum: Le Diable est ma raison

Splits

  • 2001: Black Metal final victory (split with Katharsis , Warloghe and Black Witchery )
  • 2002: Night Tale / Death to Macrocosm (Split with Azaxul)
  • 2007: SVEST / Inkisitor
  • 2008: Veritas Diaboli manet in aeternum (split with Deathspell Omega )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e hsinaV Xef Ihtraeth: SVEST In: My Heart Bleeds for You 'zine. 2001, accessed March 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Mac: Review - SVEST - Urfaust. The Metal Observer, February 22, 2007, accessed September 22, 2010 .
  3. ↑ a b c Chronique: Deathspell Omega-SVEST Veritas Diaboli Manet In Aeternum (2008). Les Éternels, January 11, 2009, accessed on September 22, 2010 (French): “La partie SVEST est composée de 3 chansons s'articulant autour d'un son de guitare particulièrement crade et saturé au maximum tant et si bien qu'il est bien difficile d'en distinguer les variations de riff. L'entreprise est néanmoins tout à fait faisable et elle permet de se rendre compte que nous sommes en présence d'un groupe très fermement ancré dans le black originel avec un son qui n'est pas sans rappeler un Darkthrone période A Blaze in the Northern Sky mais en bien plus saturé encore. La remarque s'applique à la battery also. Le chant accompagnant les instruments est évidemment raclé, mais étrangement distordu. Pas forcément du meilleur goût sur un ensemble si black metal. Les riffs sont presque obligatoirement très répétitifs, simples et froids. Néanmoins quelques petites variations apparaissent de-ci de-là pour montrer que SVEST possède sa propre personnalité. "
  4. ^ A b Zach Zimmerman: SVEST Bring French Sensibility to Black Metal on "... Le Diable Est Ma Raison". (No longer available online.) Associated Content, November 1, 2009, archived from the original on September 2, 2010 ; accessed on September 22, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.associatedcontent.com
  5. ↑ Richard: SVEST - Urfaust (2003). Lurker, February 3, 2010, accessed March 31, 2015 .
  6. ^ A b c Christian Dornbusch , Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag , Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 223 .
  7. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 224 .