Speculative Metal

0. Introduction The release of Teitanblood’s third album once again represented a new twist in the band’s sound. Seven Chalices (2009) was one of the best debut albums in the history of extreme metal. Its impact on the scene was enormous, and its influence has only continued to grow. The colossal ambition of Seven Chalices generated several escape points that can be summarized as follows: - The consolidation of Blackened Death and War Metal during the last fifteen years. - Its contribution to Old School Death Metal (with a proposal both avant-garde and reverent toward the past), in which the importance of sound stood out for a more textural and atmospheric approach — the first step of modern Death Metal toward the deterritorialization of extreme metal, its drift toward abstraction. - It unleashed Death Metal from its limitations regarding formal complexity and compositional length, endowing it with unrestrained ambition and an unprecedented conceptual and lyrical depth (following the e...