Track
one, "Lavey-athan" (geddit?), replete with Reign in Blood-era
Slayer-isms (as is this whole thing, though in an inspired, and
cooly-derivative, way): new vocalist is harsher and less operatic/ Rocky Horror
Picture Show than previous vocalist Legion was (though, truth be told, I liked
Legion's over-the-top/ tongue-in-cheek delivery)--
Track
Two, "Zoroast," [at least they're perjuring every other religion...?]
opens and closes like a Ramones-esque Satanic jam; pretty sweet, actually.
Track three, "Netherworld Emperor," rages out in full Celtic
Frost-mode, complete with a breakdown [maybe the "Emperor" in the
title is a giveaway, huh?], track four,
"Nosferatu" is Slayer's "Postmortem" part 2, [and not
entirely unnecessarily, either, like you'd be forgiven for thinking so] and
track five, "The Burning of Salem," rampages like Tom Araya on acid
mixed with pharmaceutical-grade multivitamins.
Finally,
we get to the best tracks on here, numbers 10 and 11, "Feed the Gun,"
and "Oathbreaker," which, though generic, are as pure fire as you'd
believe a European death/trash band could summon
via digital media.
Cherry
picking? "Feed the Gun," "Oathbreaker," and
"Nosferatu."
-Horn
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