EVILCULT "Triumph Of Evil" CD

EVILCULT "Triumph Of Evil" CD (Awakening Records 2025)

Brazilian blackened speed/thrash metal band, EVILCULT, will release its third full-length album “Triumph of Evil” through Awakening Records.

Formed in 2016, EVILCULT has recorded an EP and two singles before releasing its destructive debut full-length album “At the Darkest Night” in 2020, followed by its equally blasphemous sophomore release “The Devil is Always Looking for Souls” in 2023.

Featuring vocalist/guitarist Lucas “From Hell” Bittencourt, bassist Renato “Speed Lobo-Guará,” drummer Filipe Stress, and guitarist “Hell Bordini,” EVILCULT perform an amalgam of Teutonic thrash/speed and first wave of black metal, with hints of trad metal, decorated with catchy melodic riffs and shredding guitar solos. Bittencourt’s savage vocals sometimes alternate from angered, gravel-throated growls to piercing Schmier of Destruction-esque squeals. By capturing a raw and primitive production—handled by drummer Filipe Stress— “Triumph of Evil” sounds as if it was forged straight out of the ’80s underground metal scene.

EVILCULT genuinely pay homage to legendary pioneers of old school ’80s metal bands such as Hellhammer, Bathory, Sarcofago, and Sodom, while also thriving on reviving the primitive and raw underground metal worship alongside similar contemporary bands such as Whipstriker, Hellripper, and Cruel Force.

Bittencourt on the writing process for “Triumph of Evil”: “The writing and composition process for this album was completely different from our previous ones. It was an album composed entirely remotely, as each band member now lives in a different part of the country. It was way more difficult because of this, and also, we had a very tight deadline because we have a European tour starting at the end of September, and the album had to be ready before that. We had some drafts of songs and several riffs, but putting everything together without rehearsing together was quite challenging. We literally finished the songs and lyrics in the studio. We did pre-production in two days and then did the actual recording without any rehearsal.”

On its first single “Midnight Ritual”: “Midnight Ritual” was actually the last song we wrote. I had in mind that I needed a killer song that sounded like a “hit,” or whatever you want to call it. A song with great riffs and a catchy chorus. The song talks about a ritual guided by heavy metal, with lots of blood, blasphemy and lust, which starts at midnight and goes until dawn. It’s total metal worship and nothing more. It ended up sounding a little different from traditional EVILCULT, bringing a freshness but without losing our roots.”

On the amazing album cover artwork for “Triumph of Evil”: “I was raised in a Catholic family, so I always had that image of Saint Michael the Archangel defeating the Devil in Hell nearby as a child. It’s an imposing image that demonstrates the power of “good over evil.” So, I needed to subvert that, since most of EVILCULT’s lyrics and concept were about that. We like to attack Christian religions, using all this satanic symbolism to shock and provoke. So, I put the Devil defeating and humiliating the Archangel with his own sword in Hell. It ended up being a pretty awesome artwork, from a perspective I’d never seen before. The lyrics for the title track “Triumph of Evil” came from this concept. The artwork was painted digitally with brushes in Photoshop, but completely by hand, since we reject all that AI stuff some bands are using.”

EVILCULT’s “Triumph of Evil” is pure blasphemous South American metal.