Black Metal can be the most consolidated Metal subgenre. Yes, this point can be said due the style's limits and features can be broken without traumas and complains (except if you live in Brazil, the land of complainers), and the greater part of the fans are opened to new forms of making Black Metal music. In South America, there's a particular way of creating Black Metal, especially in countries as Bolivia, Colombia and all countries that speak in Spanish. But it seems that the South American Black Metal way has a strong grasp on Central and North American countries, especially on Mexico, land of the darkened LUCIFERIAN RITES, a trio that now comes with their new album, "When Light Dies".

You can point EMPEROR, BURZUM, MAYHEM and the Brazilian quartet MYSTERIIS as the greater musical influences of them, or we can say, they're in a musical trend that recovers aspects of the Second Wave of Black Metal, specifically from Norwegian earlier Black Metal. The quartet play a very morbid and darkened music, focused not on technique, but on an atmosphere Black Metal with very particular insight in some moments. With very good high pitched vocals (with some howls that remind a tormented soul in some moments), simple (but very good) guitar riffs, and a direct and heavy rhythmic basis (played by the guest Sepulchral) created by bass and drums. So, besides they're not creating something new, they're playing something good and in their own way. And this is called personality.

The sound production was done in a way that we can understand what the instruments are playing separately, but in the conception of "non-esthetics" used by Norwegian Black Metal ancients. But remember: this quality is what we always say that makes part of the musical conception of the band.

10 very good songs await our ears on this album. But "Big Daddy" here points as the better ones "Eternal Misanthropy Of The Black Cosmos" (a well balanced song, having fast and slow moments, with very good vocals and riffs that takes us by the ears), the more climatic and worked "Incinerated Cross" (a very catching song, with some very good morbid melodies, a not so fast tempo and great work done by bass and drums, creating a graven atmosphere), "When Light Dies" with its aggressive grasp and howls, the destructive "Conviction Of Nocturnal Raven" with its great guitar work, and "All Your Lies (Diabolical Memories)", a fast song with some very good and technical drumming, along with agonizing chants.

A very good band, indeed, and this album is an addiction.