This is quite an old band, having released the debut In The Flames of Black Art back in 1996. But, sometime during the year of 2003 DARZAMAT underwent some grave lineup changes leaving only Flauros as the common denominator for the following form. Semidevilish and Transkarpatia were the two albums released by the revamped lineup under different record labels. Solfernus Path is the Polish band's debut with Massacre Records that 'frightened' me with the Gothic tag in the bio sheet. No, I am not spiteful against the Gothic scene but to my ears almost all albums produced under this banner, sound pretty much the same with a total luck of diversity and thus originality.  
Fortunately for me, False Sleepwalker came to wipe out most of the Gothic atmposphere with a solid groove among the general Death/Black vocals. This may sound confusing but this is exactly the strongest characteristic in DARZAMAT's music. Many different Metal genres show up and mix with others creating a most interesting result that, after all, does taste very good. The keyboards add the term 'symphonic' in the music description and reveal some underlying DIMMU BORGIR influences that became more vivid in the guitars of Vote For Heresy or Final Conjuration. There is a lot to discover in this album that I believe is the logical to the previous one Transkarpatia that was produced by Andy La Rogue (KING DIAMOND). I am mentioning his name since I trust his music taste from the day I found out that he had produced EVERGREY's debut album. The album features an arcane atmosphere supported by the killer keyboard melodies and the quite original mix of female and male vocals. Here there is no beauty-and-the-beast overused recipe but two different singers who play their part serving the heavy (male) and the melodic (female) sides of DARZAMAT's sound. Gloria Inferni is a fine proof of the previous saying where the haunting female vocals cover everything with a mystic vale while the male ones feed the underground evil darkness and reach a climax near the end singing together the word demons. The album keeps a perfect balance between melody and heaviness that most of the times cannot be told apart. Just like the Lunar Silhouette intro that travels you in Lovecraftian undiscovered planes until King Of The Burning Anthems kicks you in the face with a hearty blackness in the Black Metal-ish vocals and the killer guitar riff waking you from this strange evil-nirvana.
It is not of a great surprise that this is a concept album telling the story of a medicine student in the beginning of the 20th century who manages to leave the carnal world and take a look at the other side. The album does exactly the 'favor' of the story plot hitting hard with mystified melodies embed inside the overall heaviness that can reveal some CRADLE OF FITLH influences as found in Nera's voice during the slow break in Chimera.
DARZAMAT will definitely draw more attention with Solfernus Path and only due to the brand new record deal with Massacre Records. The album is impressive with all the different sound tastes and the story flow that goes hand-in-hand with the tracklist and the lyrics. My advice here is at least check them at their official MySpace page since the entire album is already streaming and try not to be impressed.