Year Released: 2010
Southern Lord Records
Review by: Piratehooker
January 4th, 2013
Whilst browsing Southern Lord's website a few months ago, I stumbled upon this band. I had no idea what to expect from the logo and artwork, but a quick Youtube search left me speechless. The opener track, 'Cross Builder', is awash with rolling, fuzzy black metal riffage, setting an extremely dark tone for the rest of the album. But on track 2, 'Death Alive', the album quickly changes pace from brooding black metal chaos to ferocious, rip-roaring Entombed-style death/punk, recorded and mixed with the signature Swedish 90's style. The rest of the tracks until the closer, '1968', continue for the most part in this fashion, leaving no survivors by the end of this monster of an album. Though the album is brief, clocking in at under 40 minutes, The Secret really have put together a masterpiece with 'Solve Et Coagula'. The Italians stand out from the slough of fusion bands emerging recently as particularly feral and misanthropic, combining two very different yet equally dark genres flawlessly, creating an album that leaves one guessing the band's next move after each track.The band has recently released 'Agnus Dei', their follow up to this album. Definitely a band to keep an eye on.
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