Mefitic – Woes Of Mortal Devotion

Mefitic have been boiling and brewing like a black poisonous stew in the metal underground for the last 10 years or so. Having released a number of splits and EP’s the band finally unleash their debut full length album.

"Woes Of Mortal Devotion" is stunning is its delivery. What’s great about it is that it walks the line between so many different extremes. The production for example finds the perfect balance between raw and murky and yet crystal clear. Also what I love about this band is that they walk the line perfectly between black and death metal, not fully being one or the other yet taking the best qualities of both genres and making their own horrible sound!

The album doesn’t really have any real stand out tracks and works as a whole rather than 8 individual pieces. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing is really down to the individual but the album does work as it is 40 minutes and does exactly what it needs to do before coming to an abrupt end.

The album sounds really like the front cover artwork looks! It has this grim, stuffy, claustrophobic feel to it. It brings to mind the band Portal. Not that Metific sound anything like them but in terms of that bleak, dreadful feel that the band have you get the idea.

This album is well worth checking out it’s a straight ahead 40 minutes with the technicality and atmosphere of black metal and the brutality of death metal with an atmosphere as black as espresso! What more do you want? Go!


  1. Grievous Subsidence
  2. Obloquī
  3. Noxious Epiclesis
  4. Eroding The Oblates Of The Lord
  5. Mendacious Psalmodĭa
  6. The Tomb Of Amaleq
  7. Pain
  8. The Swirling Columns Of Staleness