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This is the first demo by Matavitatau.

Limited edition Pro-Tape with UV full body print and 5 panels jcard courtesy of Canti Eretici Productions: limited amount still available through the band.

Reception:

The Whispering Darkness:
‘It is one thing to place an album on a pedestal, and something entirely different to truly pay homage to it. What Matavitatau achieve on their debut demo is nothing short of impressive, delivering a demo filled with excellent riffs, dynamic drums, pulsating bass and delirious vocals. And especially how they manage to find balance between it all is xceptional! ‘Numen Nescio’ comes highly recommended to those that worship bands that followed closely in the footsteps of ‘De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas’, simply an amazing demo that hopefully will soon see a physical release on vinyl!’

No Clean Singing:
‘It thrives on the fuel of guitars that straddle a line between crystalline clarity and acid causticity (some tones more clear and others more choking than others), as well as momentously heavy bass-lines and
highly variable drumwork. Also notable are the hellish vocals, sounding like a confluence of haughty demonic torturers and their excruciating victims. As the band’s name might suggest, the songs contain their fair share of frenzy and fury, as the rhythmic section charge ahead like big pumping and throbbing war machines and the lead guitar whirls and
darts with electrifying effect. On the other hand, the music also sinks deeply into territories of abysmal misery, sometimes accompanied by monastic wails, and those electrifying leads seem to manifest as a plague virus burning through helpless peoples.
As you can tell, there’s something about the music (but also influenced by the cover art) that makes me thing of the Dark Ages, not so much because it includes a lot of what I think of as medieval music (though there’s definitely some of that among the influences), but because it sounds as terrorizing as the superstitions dominating ignorant lands, and it often sounds elegant and ancient in its grimness and grievousness.’

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Matavitatau is a black metal quartet emerging from East Flanders. Their first demo recording, 'Numen Nescio', appeared in February 2025, followed up by 'Taeda Inversa' in July 2026.

Matavitatau brings raw poetic black metal hymns in the Latin tongue exclusively.

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