“I will run after this voice and seize You.” When we last heard from Patristic in 2022, the Italian blackened death metal act was playing “a razor-sharp style of black metal, one that eschews frigid atmospheres for a complete lack thereof.” Additionally, “the density of the drum work and sheer production [was] enough to suck all the air from listeners’ lungs.” The crushing atmospheric weight of Apologetica was the withered-lung breathlessness of standing “in God’s presence / in God’s essence.” Steeped in the words of the Church Fathers, Patristic then declared, “Here I am to deliver from the plague and corruption and sin. … Continue reading Exclusive Track Premiere: Patristic’s “Catechesis I”