Azarath - Diabolic Impious Evil
Anti-Human, Anti-GodDevil’s Stigmata Pagan2006 It’s tough not to laugh at song titles like “Baptized in Sperm of the Antichrist” or “Intoxicated by Goat Vomit,” or an album title that essentially parses to “Evil Evil Evil.” But Azarath brings the fucking hammer, which isn’t a surprise given that Inferno from Behemoth is on drums and Trufel,...
Yattering - Murder's Concept
Anal NarcoticDamaged Relapse2000 Admittedly, Yattering didn’t impress me much when I first heard them on 2000’s Polish Assault (they were hit-or-miss, but the Assault compilations for various countries were brilliant ideas, and I wish Relapse kept doing them). Not long ago, though, I heard some clips that made me go apeshit so much that I...
Lux Occulta - The Mother and the Enemy
Missa Solemnis Metal Mind2001 Holy album cover! Whoever decided that a boob could be a face has some serious issues. Once I get past that haunting mammary, The Mother and the Enemy is no less strange. The most recent album by on-hiatus Lux Occulta, it was evidently too weird for its drummer, who jumped ship...