Calligram - Position/Momentum

Position | Momentum delivers on the icy, elemental intensity of black metal – the blast beats, the tremolo-picking, the bilious screams of vocalist Matteo Rizzardo – but it does so with the urgency, the impatience even, of punk and hardcore.

Even in generally quite lengthy songs, the band are quick to develop or move on from one idea to the next, never sticking too long to an uninterrupted blast as is often the way in black metal for example, but also never just dropping to a big chugging breakdown or a straightforward shout-along and thereby losing the pervasive blackened atmosphere that hangs over the entirety of the record.

Blackened Hardcore of the highest order!