BATHORY´ZINE: Matalobos: “THE GRAND SPLENDOUR OF DEATH”

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Matalobos: “THE GRAND SPLENDOUR OF DEATH”

“Death is pain, it is desolation, loss and pain; in the same way it is passion, it is celebration, redemption and relief; and thus its great splendor will envelop us all, it will envelop the roads we have traveled, the places that saw us breathe; the echoes of our steps and words will prevail, but we will no longer be here "

Matalobos presents this 2020, his most ambitious work, a musical and conceptual representation of the vast faces of Death, in a set of 7 macabrely arranged tracks from the depths of their lost souls, all under the title: “THE GRAND SPLENDOUR OF DEATH ".

This album will be released on December 4, 2020, under the Concreto Records label for its Mexican edition. Consequent foreign editions will be announced shortly.

“THE GRAND SPLENDOUR OF DEATH” was recorded and mixed by Rubén Sánchez (Vst, Dark Matter) at Urvn Studios, León, Mexico, during July and August 2020, produced by Rubén and Matalobos.

Later mastered in Stockholm by Jari Lindholm (Enshine, Exgenesis, exAtoma, exSlumber), giving a magnificent enhancement to the final sound of the album.

Visually, the work reflects an unconventional representation of that entity in charge of taking souls to their last journey on this plane.

Its cover is authored by the master Manolo González Zavala, showing a shadowy, almost unrecognizable figure that sustains life in his hands, fragile, ominous and rotten.

Tracklist:

-Ignis Spiritus Morte
-Bondservants
-Forlorn Hope
-De Fantasmas y Lamentos
-Swallowed by the Earth
-Monuments of Death
-The Midnight Caller

Members:

Eduardo Santamaría - guitars
Dante - voice
Carlos de Anda - bass
Germán Nieto - guitars and strings
Clemente Escalona - drums

Biography:

Guided by darkness and melancholy, this band comes to life at the end of 2014 with the sole purpose of going straight to the core of the inner self, that place feared by some, loved by others, our true faces.

Matalobos started when Eduardo decided to finish his old band and start writing new material for a more metal / dark with Dante, also a vocalist from his previous band, they made a couple of songs and got in touch with friends and music partners for a long time. time, Clemente as drummer, and bassist Carlos de Anda, and thus, after some pre-production sessions they entered Urvn Studios (León, Mexico) to record their first EPs. from February to March 2015, for which it will be released that year by Inductive Opression Records, reaching a melancholic death metal sound along with doomed passages.