ACHERON-REBIRTH:METAMORPHOSING INTO GODHOOD - 8
BACK FROM THE UNHOLY PIT ADVANCE THE MIGHTY ACHERON A NEW SATANIC OFFERING IN THERE BLOOD SOAKED TALONED HAND.SPORTING POSSIBLY THE SICKEST AND COOLEST ALBUM COVER IN MANY A YEAR THERE NEW ALBUM ABANDONS THE KEYBOARD LADEN SOUND OF 98 “FOR THOSE WHO HAVE RISEN” FOR MORE DOOM LADEN TONES .THE ALBUMS TITLE IS IRONIC AND PERHAPS DELIBERATE SINCE THE BAND ON THIS CD OFFER A LITERAL MUSICAL REBIRTH OF THE ACHERON SOUND ITSELF.GONE ARE PETER GILMORES INTROS AND THE STRONG GOTHIC OVERTONES OF THERE LAST WORK .SONGS CRUSH AND SLIDE AT TIMES NEARLY IN SLOW MOTION .THE POWER WITHIN THE RIFFS CREEPING HEAVINESS.ITS AN INTERESTING MUSICAL PROGRESSION.FOR MANY YEARS THE BAND WERE ACCUSED OF BEING TO KEYBOARD ORIENTED ALMOST GOTHIC AND NOT EVEN BLACK METAL.THEY’VE NOW REPLACED GOTH PRETENSION WITH A MASSIVE WALL OF BRUTALITY.THE SONGS ARE STILL LENGTHYY BUT NOT BORING.MANY OF THE TRACKS ARE VIRTUALLY INSTRUMENTALS WITH ONLY A SMATTERING OF LYRICS AND VOCALS.EVEN THE LYRICAL CONTENT HAS SHIFTED OFFERING A MORE PERSONAL TONE WHETHER CROWLEY IS SERMONIZING ON THE FALSENESS OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE MYTH OF JESUS OR THROTTLING SOME LOWLY SATANIC SLUT IN HIS RITUAL CHAMBER.METAMORPHOSING IS EASILY THE BEST CD ACHERON HAS RELEASED SINCE LEX TALIONIS.THIS IS TRULY A REBIRTH INDEED.

BLACK WITCHERY-UPHEAVAL OF SATANIC MIGHT - 7
BLACK WITCHERY THE NAME EVOKES MANY THINGS TO WE WHO WALLOW IN THE UNDERGROUND.THE BAND HAS ALWAYS FLEW THE FLAG FOR TRUE UNDERGROUND BLACK METAL MUSIC .OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS SINCE THIS CDS LONG AWAITED RELEASE I HAVE NOTICED AND READ ONLINE SEVERAL VERY NEGATIVE REVIEWS OF THIS CD ON OTHER SITES.ONE SO CALLED UNDERGROUND WEB-ZINE EVEN WENT AS FAR AS TO CALL THIS CD THE WORST BLACK METAL CD EVER!SO I WILL WARN YOU.THOSE OF THE FAINT OF HEART OR LOOKING FOR 100,000 DOLLAR PRODUCTION,S AND M GEAR,VAMPIRE FANGS OR CLASSICAL GOTHIC INTERLUDES PLEASE LOOK ELSEWERE.THIS CD WHICH IS LO-FI IN THE EXTREME IS THE ESSENCE OF TRUE BLACK METAL.AS DARK AS A POSITIVE CANCER TEST THIS RECORD IS TOTAL WAR AND WE IN THE KNOW SHOULD EXPECT NOTHING LESS!DON’T EXPECT STANDARD SONGS OR GUITAR SOLOS .THIS ISNT MUSIC ITS AN UNHOLY BARRAGE OF LUCIFERIC EVIL.KNUCKLE DRAGGING NEANDERTHALIC RIFFS CRASH AGAINST NUCLEAR DRUM FILLS AND HATE FILLED VOCALS PIPE IN OVER THE MELEE CREATING A PITCHBLACK HYPNOTIC MOOD THAT LEAVES YOU DROWNING IN DEMONIC AFTERBIRTH BURNING IN FLAMES..THIS IS FILTH WALLOWING,PLAGUE SPEWING,GOAT WORSHIPPING BLACK METAL HELL AND IS AS FAR AWAY FROM CRADLE OF FILTHS OZZFEST INSPIRED POP THAN ONE CAN IMAGINE!BLACKER THAN YOU!BELIEVE IT.

SIX FEET UNDER-13 - 4
AFTER THE DIP OF TOTAL CRANAGE AND A FINE RETURN TO FORM WITH BRINGER OF BLOOD WHICH WAS DERIDED IN MANY CORNERS AS TO SIMPLISTIC AND BASIC SIX FEET UNDER NOW RETURN WITH 13 .BRINGER ACTUALLY CAME CLOSE TO MATCHING THE DEATH METAL BRILLIANCE OF HAUNTED THE BANDS DEBUT AND CAREER HIGHPOINT SO YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW DISAPPOINTED DIEHARD FANS WILL BE WHEN THEY FINALLY HEAR SIX FEETS LATEST.RIDING HIGH ON A SERIES OF GREAT LIVE PERFORMANCES AND A FINE CD 13 IS POSSIBLY THE BANDS WORST CD EVER!THE NEW RIFFS ARE WEAK,BARNES LYRICS TEPID ,BORING AND UNINVENTIVE .HAVING SEEN SIX FEET UNDER LIVE RECENTLY SUPPORTING CHIMAIRA I WAS SUPRISED HOW LAID BACK, UNINTERESTING AND DOWNRIGHT BORING THE BAND HAD BECOME LIVE.THEY SEEMED TO LACK ALL ENERGY .THERE PLAYING WAS PLODDING AND FLAT NOT HELPED REMOTELY BY WEAK PISS POOR SOUND(IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE VENUES SOUND SYSTEM)AND CHRIS BARNES SLEEPWALKING THROUGH A SHORTENED SET LIST.THAT LIVE LETHARGY SEEMS TO HAVE INFECTED THERE NEW RELEASE AS WELL.FLAT AND UNINSPIRED ONLY THE TRACK DEATHKLATT MADE ME WANT TO HIT THE REPEAT BUTTON.THE TRACK POISON HAND STANDS OUT EVEN THOUGH IT FEATURES A RIFF SO BASIC A FIRST YEAR GUITAR STUDENT COULDVE WROTE IT.STILL ITS ENJOYABLE UNLIKE MOST OF THIS RECORD!BARNES VOCALS ARE STILL RAW, BRUTAL AND GUTTURAL.EVEN MORE SAVAGE THAN ON THE LAST DISC.GONE ARE THE WEAK POLITAL DIATRIBES LIKE AMERIKA THE BRUTAL THAT ALBUMS WEAKEST AND ODDLY FIRST SINGLE.THERE WERE FEW GENUINELY BAD SONGS ON TRUE CARNAGE WITH ONLY SNAKES BEING THROW AWAY BUT IT STILL REMAINS AN AMAZINGLY AVERAGE CD.ONE CANT SAY THE SAME WITH 13.THIS CD IS ALMOST ALL FILLER. I HAD HOPED THAT BARNES WOULD CONTINUE DOWN THE PATH OF BRINGER OF BLOOD RE-DEFINING HIS BANDS SOUND WHILE SERVING UP SOME OF THE FINEST AND TRUEST OLD SCHOOL DEATH .LEAVING HIS FORMER BAND MATES IN CANNIBAL CORPSE AND THERE MONOTONOUS BLASTING DEATH IN THE DUST.SAD.SIX FEET UNDER, LIKE HIS FORMER BAND MEMBERS HAVE FINALLY RAN OUT OF STEAM .I HAD HOPED CHRIS AND CO WOULD EXPLODE FROM THE GRAVE ON 13 .LIKE A ROTTING CORPSE RAGING AND OUT FOR BLOOD THIS TIME SIX FEET UNDER REMAIN BURIED IN A GRAVE OF PURE MONOTONY.

REVENGE-VICTORY,INTOLERANCE,MASTERY - 8
MUCH LIKE BLACK WITCHERYS LATEST RELEASE IVE SEEN REVIEWS OF THIS CD ON OTHER SO-CALLED UNDERGROUND SITES DERIDING THE LACK OF DIVERSITY OF THE MUSIC AND TRASHING IT AS FLAT LAME AND AN ALL AROUND INSULT TO BLACK METAL.IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR TRADITIONAL SONG STRUCTURES,RIPPING GUITAR SOLOS OR KEYBOARD FILLS THAN REALLY YOU ARE MISSING THE ENTIRE POINT.REVENGE CREATE A WALL OF NOISE.A CHAOTIC BORDERING ON HYPNOTIC DRONE THAT NOT SO MUCH GOES IN ONE EAR AS OUT THE OTHER BUT GOES IN ONE EAR THEN TAKES YOUR FUCKING HEAD OFF!INTENSE AND SAVAGE IN THE EXTREME REVENGE MAKE MUSIC TO TERRORIZE YOUR BRAIN.THIS CD IS A TOTAL MINDFUCK OF RAW EXTREMITY AND BLASTING MADNESS.IT’S THE AURAL EQUIVALENT OF A PLAIN TAKING OFF.OF BEING PUMMELED OVER THE HEAD WITH A WEIGHTED HAMMER !AS MR.HELMCAMP SCREECHES OUT HIS ODES TO LYRICAL SUPERION ON TRACKS LIKE IRON INTOLERANCE AND DESTINY MASTERY.I HAVE TO SALUTE MR.HELMCAMP AND MR.REED FOR JUST NOT GIVING A FUCK AND CREATING THERE OWN ART THERE WAY.NO TRENDS.NO COM PROMISE.THIS CD IS NOT MUSIC BUT A LITERAL WALL OF NOISE .GROUPS LIKE WHITE HOUSE AND SKIN CHAMBER WERE AND STILL ARE INNOVATORS IN THIS FIELD OF EXTREME NOISE TERROR .MR.HELMCAMP HAS EVEN VENTURED FULLY INTO THE NOISE GENRE WITH HIS STRIKING TERROR ORGAN PROJECT.IT TAKES A BIT OF A BRAIN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT REED AND HELMCAMP ARE TRYING TO ACHIEVE HERE.THIS CD IS DEFINING AND THE EXTREME OF THE EXTREME.ONLY DIEHARDS NEED ENTER!

MARDUK-PLAGUE ANGEL - 7
THE MIGHTY MARDUK RETURNS SANS VOCALIST LEGION AND BASSIST B.WAR. AND ANYONE WHO FELT OR BELIEVED THE BAND WOULD STUMBLE OR FALL AFTER THERE DEPARTURE ARE QUICKLY PROVEN WRONG WITH ONE LISTEN TO MARDUK’S LATEST.WITHIN BLACK METAL MARDUK ARE BORDERLINE LEGENDS WITH OVER 10 FULL RECORDS UNDER THERE BELTS THERE IS ALWAYS AN EXTRAORDINARY ANTICIPATION WHEN THEY RELEASE A CD.THOUGH NEARLY LEGENDARY THE BANDS LACK OF VARIATION IN THERE SOUND ON PREVIOUS RELEASES HAS DRAWN THE DERISION AND INSULT THAT MOST MARDUK CDS ARE INTERCHANGABLE.THE CONSTANT BARRAGE IDENTICAL SO LACKING IN VARIETY.THERE LATEST PLAGUE ANGEL JUST MIGHT BE THE CD TO QUIET THERE DETRACTORS.WITH THE INJECTION OF ALMOST MORBID ANGEL STYLE RIFFS ON TRACKS LIKE THRONE OF RATS THE BAND INJECT A WELCOME DOSE OF DOOM INTO THE MIX.PESTILENCE REIGNS SUPREME OVER PLAGUE ANGEL NOT JUST IN THE LYRICS BUT IN THE RIFFS AS WELL.YES THE INFAMOUS BLASTING IS STILL PRESENT .THE DRUMMING SAVAGE AND PRECISE.CUTTING SHARP AS USUAL.BUT NOW TEMPERED WITH A HEAVY DOOM VIBE .YES MARDUK NOW DON’T SIMPLY CRASH OVER YOU AT HYPER SPEED BUT SLOWLY ROLL OVER LIKE A PANZER TANK CRUSHING YOU INTO DUST.IN A WORD ARMAGEDDON.THE DEPARTURE OF THE MIGHTY LEGION AND THE POWERHOUSE B.WAR IS NOW OFFICIALLY IRRELEVANT.WITH PLAGUE ANGEL MARDUK PROVE THEY CAN STILL WEAR THERE BLACK CROWN PROUDLY

NATTEFROST-TERRORIST - 8
THE TWISTED SICK BEAST- MAN KNOWN AS NATTEFROST RETURNS WITH HIS SECOND SOLO CD.THE GOAT RAPING HELLCOMMANDER IS HERE TO SERVE YOU A VIOLENT SLICE OF BLACK METAL SUICIDE THAT WILL LEAVE MANY ASKING THE QUESTION IS NATTEFROST FOR REAL OR IS HE JUST TAKING THE PISS.ANYONE WHO LISTENED TO HIS PREVIOUS RELEASE BLOOD AND VOMIT NEEDNT ASK.THIS IS RAW PRIMITIVE BLACK METAL IN ITS PUREST SENSE IT JUST COMES WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR THAT’S ALL FORMERLY NOT PRESENT IN THE GENRE.EVEN MORE SIMPLISTIC THAN HIS DEBUT NATTEFROST IS ON A SHIT STAINED MISSION TO ASSUALT YOUR EARS AND SEND YOU TO HELL!PRIMITIVE RAW AND DIRTY AS FUCK IT KNUCKLE DRAGS ACROSS A BLACKENED SOUNDSCAPE SMEARED IN COME ,EXCREMENT AND BLOOD INTO YOUR MIND.BUT IN A GOOD WAY.DARK,TWISTED AND SICKENING ITS ADMITTEDLY NOT AS GOOD OR EFFECTIVE AS BLOOD AND VOMIT BUT NATTEFROSTS VOCALS REMAIN LANDMARK SAVAGE AND RIPPING AND YES BOTH BATHORY AND CELTIC FROST REAR THERE HEADS IN BOTH ITS RIFFS AND SONGWRITING MAKING THIS CD FAR FROM ORIGINAL IN SOUND STILL THIS IS TRUE BLACK METAL.PRAISE SATAN!TAKE A SHIT!BATHE IN EXCREMENT!MOLEST A NUNE!NO MOLEST TWO!SUICIDE AND SEXUAL PERVERSION.A WICKED WALL OF DISEASE AND SELF MUTILATION.DON’T WORRY NATTEFROST STILL HATES THE WORLD.THIS IS COVERED IN SHIT AND VOMIT MAGGOT RIDDEN NECRO BLACK METAL AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT YOU CAN SUCK NATTEFROST NECROCOCK!WHO NEEDS CARPATHIAN FOREST ANYWAY!I PREFER THIS!

SAURON-FOR A DEAD RACE - 8
THIS DANISH BAND ,ONE OF THE FEW TRUE BLACK METAL BANDS IN DENMARK CLAIM BOTH DARKTHONE AND BATHORY AS MAJOR INFLUENCES AND IT SHOWS IN BOTH THERE QUALITY SONGWRITING AND SOUND.THIS IS PURE HATE-FILLED MISANTHROPIC BLACK METAL WITH NOTHING BUT TOTAL DISGUST FOR THE WORLD.DROP THE BOMB METAL IF YOU WILL AND INCREDIBLY THERE ARE ACTUAL GENUINE SONGS AMIDST THE HATE FILLED CACOPHONY .ONE HANDED HATE GENERAL AND DRUMMER LUDAS UNLEASHES AN APOCALYPTIC BARRAGE WHILE GUITARIST SUNLESS SAVAGES HIS WAEPON TEARING ONE MEMORABLE RIFF OUT OF IT AFTER ANOTHER .EVEN THOUGH THIS IS HIGHLY ARMAGEDDON LIKE WARMONGERING DEATH METAL ITS NOT AN ENDLESS BARRAGE ALA REVENGE OR BLACK WITCHERY BUT FILLED WITH GENUINE SONGWRITING.MANY BANDS CLAIM TO BE MISANTHROPHIC AND HATEFUL BUT SAURON ARE A BAND WHO SEEMS TO REALLY MEAN IT.THEY ALSO HAVE THE SONGS TO PROVE IT.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

DEMONCY-EMPIRE OF THE FALLEN ANGEL - 7
I APPROACHED THIS CD UPON RELEASE WITH TREPIDATION AND WITH GOOD REASON.THE BANDS PREVIOUS CD JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS WAS AN AMAZINGLY HYPNOTIC RIDE INTO THE DARKEST REALMS OF BLACK METAL HELL.ITS CONSIDERED BY MOST TO BE A MODERN CLASSIC AND DESERVEDLY SO.VOCALIST AND FOUNDING MEMBER IXITHRA VOCALS WERE THE EPITOME OF NECRO .THE SEARING RIFFS WERE TRULY HYPNOTIC,DRONING AT FIRST THEN DIVING INTO AN OCCULTIC BLACK HOLE OF GRIMNESS.IT WAS LESS A MUSICAL CD AND MORE A BLACK MASS OF DARK INTENSITY WHERE DARK MYTHOLOGY MET MEDIEVAL DEVIL WORSHIP.AFTER JOURNEY DEMONCY TRULY STOOD ALONE .BUT NOW THEY RETURN WITH A NEW SOUND ,A NEW LINEUP AND A NEW DIRECTION HAS APPEARED BUT NOT NEARLY AS ORIGINAL.LEAVING MANY TO WONDER WHETHER IT HAS ALL GONE WRONG.THE NEW LINE-UPS SOUND IS SO DIFFERENT I MIGHT AS WELL BE REVIEWING A NEW BAND NOT A NEW LINEUP SO MUCH HAS CHANGED.THE SONGS NO LONGER CRAWL MENACINGLY BUT MOVE AND PROPEL AT A SPEEDIER PACE.GAINING A NEW SOUND MORE COMPARABLE TO THE LIKES OF IMMORTAL OR DISSECTION THAN THE BANDS ORIGINAL INFLUENCES .ONCE GRIM AND ICE COLD THE SOUND IS NOW MORE MODERN AND STRONGLY NORWEGIAN.ODD CONSIDERING THAT IXITHRA IN HIS FORMER BAND PROFANATICA WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINATORS OF MODERN BLACK METAL AND PROFANATICA ARE ARGUABLY THE FIRST AMERICAN BLACK METAL BAND.DON’T MIS-UNDERSTAND ME THIS CD IS VERY GOOD SOMETIMES GREAT.PITCH BLACK RIFFS AND SHRIEKING VOCALS MEET IN A POWERFUL MAELSTROM .MANY WEENED ON THE TRUE MODERN NORWEGIAN SCENE MIGHT EVEN ENJOY IT MORE THAN THE BANDS PREVIOUS WORK.THE BAND HAS CHANGED AND PROGRESSED THAT MUCH.BUT THIS CD THOUGH VERY GOOD IS SO UNLIKE THE GREAT MANS WORK IN THE PAST THAT IT JUST MIGHT LEAVE YOU WONDERING WHY.

CANDLEMASS -SELF TITLED - 6
IN THE LATE 8OS THIS BAND RELEASED WHAT MANY DOOM AFICIONADOS,MYSELF INCLUDED, CONSIDER TO ONE OF THE GREATEST METAL ABUMS IN ROCK N ROLL HISTORY.THE CDS TITLE?NIGHTFALL.THAT CDS RELEASE NEARLY TWENTY YEARS AGO STILL STANDS AS A MONUMENT TO THE BRILLIANCE OF CANDLEMASS IN THERE HEYDAY.TO SAY THAT I APPROACHED THIS ALBUM WITH EXTREME EXCITEMENT WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT TO SAY I AM RATHER SADDENED AND DISAPPOINTED WITH ITS CONTENTS WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT AS WELL.STILL TO SAY I FAILED TO ENJOY IT WOULD BE LYING.PERHAPS IT WAS MY OWN EXPECTATION HOPING THIS CD COULD EQUAL THE EXTRODINARY NIGHTFALL YET KNOWING NOTHING COULD.THE RETURN OF VOCALIST MESSIAH MARCOLIN ,A VOCAL LEGEND, IS MOST WELCOME INDEED.HIS VOICE WAS SO MAGNIFICENT ON THERE FIRST FULL LENGTH RELEASE BUT HERE IT LIES BURIED IN THE MIX .STRONG BUT STILL TO SILENT FOR MY TASTE.HIS VOICE SHOULD BE CENTER STAGE SINCE HIS VOCALS ARE WHAT SET APART THE BAND FROM OTHER PRETENDERS TO THE SABBATH THRONE .SO MANY MODERN DOOM BANDS SURVIVE ON THE RAGGED CORPSE OF CLASSIC OZZY ERA SABBATH PICKING IT CLEAN BUT CANDLESMASS OVER THE SPAN OF THREE CLASSIC CDS WERE TRULY DIFFERENT.I ALWAYS FELT THE BAND WERE MUSICALLY MORE INFLUENCED BY THE DIO SABBATH ERA .THERE SONGS WERE TO EPIC,THE LYRICS AND IMAGERY TO FANTASTICAL .THEY WERE TRULY A GROUP THAT DESERVED TO BE CALLED THE KINGS OF DOOM.EVEN THIS ALBUMS STRIPPED DOWN COVER IS A DISAPPOINTMENT IN COMPARISION TO THE EVOCATIVE IMAGES AND FANTASY PAINTINGS USED ON THERE CLASSIC 80’S ALBUMS.STILL THERE ARE SEVERAL ASPECTS THAT MADE ME ENJOY THIS CD AND TO LOOK FORWARD TO ANY REUNION TOUR SHOWS THAT MIGHT COME STATESIDE IN 2006.ONE IS THE THRASHING AND PROPULSIVE BLACK DWARF THE FIRST SINGLE AND OPENING TRACK.AN AVERAGE SONG ON ANY OTHER MESSIAH LED CD HERE IT IS A STANDOUT.THE TRACK SEVEN KEYS IS SO GOOD IT COULD HAVE BEEN ON ANCIENT DREAMS.THE EVOCATIVE AND LENGTHY WITCHES SCORES AS WELL AS MESSIAH SUMMONS UP A SABBATH IN MEMORY OF ALL THOSE WHO DIED.GOOD SOMETIMES VERY GOOD.STILL MANY OF THE SONGS SEEM OVERLONG AND UNINSPIRED.IT IS A SIMPLE FACT THAT VERY FEW CLASSIC BANDS CAN LIVE UP TO THERE LEGEND.NUCLEAR ASSUALT AND BLACK SABBATH BOTH COME TO MIND.SABBATH THOUGH VERY GOOD LIVE HAS FAILED TO DELIVER ANYTHING IN TERMS OF A NEW RECORDING EXCEPT THE WEAK THROWAWAY PSYCHOMAN.PERHAPS THEY’VE REALIZED THE WELL HAS TRULY RUN DRY.HOPEFULLY CANDLEMASS CAN FIND A NEW SPRING TO DRAW FROM FOR THERE UPCOMING SOPHOMORE REUNION CD.

CRAFT-TERROR PROPAGANDA - 8
ALL HAIL THE REIGNING UNDERGROUND KINGS AND LOYAL DARKTHRONE PLAGIARISTS CRAFT!TRUE THIS BAND PROBALLY WOULDN’T EVEN EXIST WITHOUT FENRIS AND NOCTURNO CULTOS TOXIC OUTPUT BUT THAT’S IRRELEVANT!THIS IS TRULY UNHOLY BLACK METAL THAT TERRORIZES EARS AND REAPS SOULS.WITH THERE LATEST TERROR PROGANDA CRAFT UNLEASH A BRUISING UNHOLY TERROR UPON THE LISTENER AND I LOVE IT!THE LIST OF DARKTHRONE INSPIRED BANDS THAT PLAY CELTIC FROST STYLE RIFFS ARE ENDLESS BUT THIS CD HITS LIKE A 10 TON CAVEMANS CLUB.BORROWING FROM DARKTHRONE ONLY ADDS TO THE BANDS INTENSITY AND YOUR SATANIC ENJOYMENT.THE VOCALS ARE THE DEFINTION OF THE SICKNESS.A RAW BESTIAL SHRIEKING IN TUNE WITH THE BANDS RAW ATTACK.THE PRODUCTION IS CRISP AND QUALITY BUT ICE COLD A MILION MILES AWAY FROM DARKTHRONES BACK WOODS PRODUCTIONS.ITS FILLED ODDLY WITH FREQUENT MELODY THIS IS RAW AND TRUE NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL.THE FACT THAT THE BAND IS WILLING TO REDUCE THE PACE AND SLIP IN CRUSHING HELLHAMMER RIFFS IN MID -SONG ONLY ADDS TO THE DEVASTATION.IM NOT EMBARRASED TO ADMIT I ACTUALLY ENJOYED THIS CD MORE THAN THE LAST THREE DARKTHRONES.SO FUCK ALL OF YOU WHO REFUSE TO JUMP ON BOARD AND BITCH THAT YOU HEARD IT ALL IN 92 ON BLAZE IN THE NORTHERN SKY.THIS IS THE TRUE FUTURE OF BLACK METAL. DEAL WITH IT!

SUMMON-FALLEN - 8
SINCE 2002’S AND THE BLOOD RUNS BLACK I HAVE BEEN AWAITING THE RETURN OF CHICAGO DEATH MERCHANTS SUMMON.OVER THE YEARS AND FROM ONE GREAT AND DEFINING RELEASE TO ANOTHER THE BAND HAS NEVER COMPROMISED .FROM THERE DAYS AS A RAW DARKTHRONE INSPIRED BLACK METAL HORDE TO THE SAVAGE BLACKENED THRASH OF THERE PREVIOUS CD THE BAND HAS ALWAYS REMAINED INNOVATIVE SAVAGE AND HATEFUL BUT NOW FAR MORE TECHINIAL AND DIVERSE.AMAZINGLY WELL PRODUCED FALLEN IS THE BANDS HIGHEST ACHIVEMENT.THE SONGWRITING HAS CHANGED AND ADVANCED.NOW MORE IMMEDIATE AND MEMORABLE .THIS CD IS FULL OF TRUE BLACKENING SATANIC POWER.COMBINING THE RAW SAVAGE DEATH OF AND THE BLOOD RUNS BLACK WITH THE BANDS TRUE LATE 80S THRASH INFLUENCES THE BAND HAS REACHED AN ALLTIME CREATIVE AND ARTISTIC HIGH WITH FALLEN.IN EXISTENCE FOR OVER 14 YEARS FALLEN IS THE BANDS PIECE DE RESISTANCE,THERE MASTERPIECE.A TRUE ARTIFACT OF THRASHING SATANIC ART AND HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

KULT OV AZAZEL-THE WORLD,THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL - 7
HAVING CAUGHT THE KULT LIVE RECENTLY AND OVER A FULL MONTH BEFORE I FINALLY HEARD THIS NEW CD I CAN TRULY ATTEST TO THE BANDS DEVASTATING POWER.IN THE LIVE ARENA.THEY UNLEASHED A DEVASTATING SET UPON THE GATHERED BLACK METAL MASSES SEARING OUR EAR DRUMS AND IMPRESSING ME GREATLY.SICK AND MASSIVELY CHAOTIC AND AS PUNISHING LIVE AS ON CD.SO I AM HAPPY THAT THE KULT HAVE TRULY RETURNED AND HAVE ONCE AGAIN UNLEASHED A SAVAGE ONSLAUGHT UPON THERE LOYAL LISTENERS.STILL SOMETHING HAS CHANGED.YES THE BAND STILL RACE AT BREAKNECK SPEED .THE SOUND IS STILL MISANTHROPHIC AND PURELY EVIL.THE RIFFS AND LYRICS STILL CHRIST LOATHING AND SICK AND THE VOCALS STILL TERRORIZE BUT THE SONGWRITING HAS INCREASED ALONG WITH THE QUALITY OF MATERIAL.PUNISHING YES BUT MORE ORIGINAL.PLAYING AT SUCH EXTREMITY CAN SOMETIMES CREATE TEDIUM FOR THE LISTENER BUT THE PLAYING AS USUAL IS PERFECT IN ITS EXTREMITYAND PLAYED TO PRECISION.THIS CD IS THE MUSICAL EQUIVALENT OF A SAVAGE PUMMELING.IF YOU WERE IMPRESSED WITH TRIUMPH OF FIRE OR OCULUS INFERNUM (AND WHO WASN’T)BUY THIS CD IMMEDIATELY AND PREPARE TO BE BLUDGEONED!