SATANIC WARMASTER - Exultation of Cruelty
Werewolf Records / Hells Headbangers Records
So here we have SATANIC WARMASTER's seventh full length since starting out back in the late 1990s. And if memory serves me I believe the last album, Aamongandr, from 2022 came out in late December as well. Then again what would you expect since it's grim and frosty right now in various parts of the world especially in Finland where SATANIC WARMASTER calls home.
After a few listens to this new one I have to say that Werwolf (the main man / multi-instrumentalist) is probably the last man with integrity from Finland when it comes to creating true Black Metal. Look I've been a fan of SATANIC WARMASTER since the first album, Strength & Honour, from 2001. But I have to say Werwolf's more recent out put has become my favorites from him. Aamongandr, from 2022, became my new favorite album by SATANIC WARMASTER. This one continues on to that same territory.
Musically of course for fans of old you still get plenty of that patented cold, cruel sounding necro blackened brutality. It's a tremolo picked ice storm of riffs with Tupperware drum blastbeats and that blasphemic acid tinged vocal style. But then modern day Werwolf cuts in with the slow atmosphere breaks, tosses in beautiful melodies and dare I say it, sounds like some synths are added in the far background.
But hey blast "Harken the Bells of Damnation" to the hilt and tell me in ain't twenty years ago sounding and better. Tell me that "As Blood Snarls a Macabre Silhouette" is not a head-banging Blackened rocker which turns into a slam pit frenzy? Tell me that "I Inhale the Cruelty of Winter's Breath" is not one of the best BM cuts you've endured in the past decade? Notice that there are no trend hopping bullshit going on. No stupidity, no hiptard bullshit and no weakness is what you find on this release. Yeah this one rules!!!!
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