Tarot (ita) - The Kin & Mysterious Sorcery demo 1996

Tarot (ita) - The Kin & Mysterious Sorcery demo 1996
1) Eclipse
2) The Jester
3) Injury
4) Dusty Remains of Once Sentinents
5) Waves

Reuploaded

Here's a tape traded item and another pretty obscure piece. Many of you probably know the Finnish Tarot and I'm almost certain none are aware of the Italians whose (probably) only demo I'm posting here. I have no further info on the band or the release and no covers or much else was found in the net.

Metal Archives describes this as black/doom metal but I beg to differ. There is nothing black metal here and doom resemblance would be mostly due tempos. I'd personally label the music as gothic/dark metal as it is more mellow, soft and melancholic rather than gloomy, oppressive and hideous (as expected of black/doom). The main vocal is clean, quite soft male singing or spoken voice which does an acceptable work, despite the accent. At least it's not Finnish accent. There are some screams used as backing vocal on the last two tracks to add variety. Not my favourite Italian demo, but better than I made it sound, I suppose. If you enjoy Ras Algethi, MonumentuM and Canaan, to list a few more accomplished countrymen, you might give this a listen or two.