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REVIEWS:

On the DOOM CHARTS for MAY 2021

- Forge of Steel: "Magharia is a superb, magnificent, and sublime work that confirms (if ever it were needed) Bretus’ greatness."

- Metal Na Lata: "One of the greatest institutions of contemporary Doom Metal, the Italian Bretus, delivers in this fateful and still dissonant 2021, his fifth studio album - a piece that has nothing called “Magharia”.

- La planete du Stoner: "« Magharia », dans son ensemble, est un nouvel opus majeur. Il confirme l’incroyable personnalité artistique de Bretus, inscrite autant dans le doom ancestral que dans d’autres horizons plus psychédéliques. Son âme lettrée et son aura mystérieuse en font plus qu’un simple très grand groupe de heavy-metal noir. Ils sont d’ores et déjà dans la légende du doom-metal."

- Doomed&Stoned: "Bretus have cooked up a remarkable horror soundtrack that, though it speaks of ancient lore, is very much a fitting backdrop to the unreality of our own times. Fitting somewhere on the stylistic spectrum between Candlemass and Paul Chain, Reverend Bizarre and Cardinals Folly, Magharia may be the band’s finest effort to date. Certainly, it rewards repeated listens, and will haunt you for many years to come. "

- Metallized: "Magharia è l’ennesimo grande disco di una band che merita un plauso e molta attenzione."

- La Habitacion 235: “Magharia” vuelve a dejar claro lo infravalorados que están este combinado de la provincia italiana de Catanzaro y es que más allá de sus muchos enfoques con los puntos más determinantes del doom de la vieja escuela y su posterior transformación, es en la extravagancia de Bretus dónde se saca lo mejor de la banda, desde su factura hasta su misma puesta en escena."

- Gbhbl: "We have a gloomy record here but it’s also one with a ton of fuzziness and heavy groove. Lurching from doom to intense psych and beyond, Bretus are masters of making everything feel like liquid.Bretus deserve a ton more attention and hopefully this is the album that really gets them it."

- Grind on the Road: "I believe that only a low percentage has been able to maintain or interpret in an innovative way the coordinates given to us by sacred monsters such as Black Sabbath, Witchfinder General, Trouble, Saint Vitus, Pentagram, Candlemass or Cathedral. Bretus are part of this low percentage and , album after album, they have increased their popularity and credibility like few others, starting from a land, - let me tell you - Calabria, where it is not at all easy to be someone in metal, maintaining a truly enviable continuity"

- Head Banger Reviews: ""The very essence of “Magharia” is something to be admired, and with it permeating every single facet of this record, I cannot even dare to conceive a reason to dislike what Bretus has brought to the table for this engaging album. This is undoubtedly the work that could be called their best yet."

- Invisible Oranges: "Bretus excels at combining the wicked edge of doom metal with its potential for stoned-out-of-your-mind grooviness. Squelching lesser attempts at this fusion beneath its feet, Magharia is a murky and sinister jam session that feels like a step forward into even more weirdness for the Italian doomsters."

- Metal Temple: "this album is a nonstop riff fest! The tone is awesome too with the right balance between thickness and crunching gallops."

- Grizzly Butts: "Now entirely in their element and having reached considerable stride via expanded heavy psychedelic rock influences, these Calabrian folks mystify all grey matter with fresh expressive mastery within, flexing a diabolically twisted and personality-rich showing of foundationally secure doom metal tradition.Memorable, infinitely repeatable, and surely an essential for folks attuned to traditional doom metal this year. A high recommendation."

- Wings of Death: "Het Italiaanse kwartet gaat in muzikaal opzicht - zoals gewoonlijk - geheel z'n eigen gang binnen het doom-firmament. Bretus heeft mij met Magharia opnieuw overtuigd van hun kunst om epische doom metal te vertolken in overzichtelijke, vaak pakkende composities.

- Metalhead: "“Magharia” riesce ad evocare le sonorità migliori del doom, ricordando a tutti come debba suonare questo genere. Il doom è una fede, è un culto: la ricerca di modernismi o di nuove direzioni poterebbe ad un altro stile e non sarebbe più quel doom ossessivo, tetro, pregno di malvagità, quella musica che ipnotizza, terrorizza, suggestiona e coinvolge con sublime decadenza."

- Outlaws of the Sun: "Bretus bring more a more “Experimental” attitude on this record with excellent Psychedelic Sounds being some of the best ideas I’ve heard from the band recently. Magharia allows Bretus the opportunity to go slightly off-script for a Doom Metal Band and play things that you shouldn’t really expect to work so well."

- The Sleeping Shaman: "a mix of the heavy blues metal of the first Danzig album as well as the spooky death-rock intonations of Samhain III: November-Coming-Fire"

- Salad Days Mag: "Underground al meglio, operazione che trasuda passione e mi fa godere. I Bretus sono ormai un bel nome del doom nostrano nel mondo. Per chi non li conoscesse, utilizzo il termometro “punk vs metal”, con estremi St. Vitus da una parte e Trouble dall’altra."

- Cvlt Legion: "Magharia" is the apparitions' gateway to our world, and it is great Halloween doom metal that knows how to bring a smile to Dracula's face!"

- Confinedrock: "No conocía sus anteriores lanzamientos, y me ha sorprendido encontrar estos temas de calidad, de bella factura y de inspiración oscura y terrorífica.Para fans de Black Sabbath, Cathedral o Pentragram."

- Riff Finder Reviews: "The new album is their 5th overall of their impressive 21 year run as a band and it really shows on this release.
It's all as solid as a steel coffin and as massive as Dracula's castle."

- Blues Again: "Magharia est un album ambitieux et riche qui procure sa petite dose de plaisir supplémentaire à chaque écoute. C’est à mon sens déjà un classique."

- Doommabbestia: "Album eccelso. Straconsigliati!!!"

- Mangorave: "The sound of "Magharia" combines elements of traditional Doom Metal with spooky soundscapes and therefore create a deeply scary and eschatologic sonic narrative. Occultism, witchcraft, and the inevitable coming of death fit the soudscape perfectly an thus make "Magharia" a wholesome release that will enchant fans of Saint Vitus, The Vision Bleak, and Blitzkid likewise."

- The Highly Creative blog: "if you are looking for great underground music, Italy has a lot to offer, Bretus is another good example. Oh, and one more thing. Long live the music of the 70’s, and those who keep the old vibes alive!"

- Earthquaker Mexico: "Bretus ha creado otra obra de arte dentro de los sonidos obscuros ahogados en vehemencia, pero es necesario permitir el fluir de cada uno de sus temas para que poco a poco nos vayan creando una perfecta atmósfera de zozobra y nos coloque en la antesala de la ultratumba."

- World of Metal Mag: "Já podemos considerar os Bretus como veteranos. Doom metal clássico, a prestar a devida vassalagem aos mestres Sabbathe e Pentagram mas também a Saint Vitus e The Obsessed"