‘Alttarimme On Luista Tehty’ is brutal and venomous Black Metal at its most extreme and it comes courtesy of Finnish Black Metal legends Azaghal. This is the twelfth full length sacrifice from the masters of Finnish Black Terror Metal, and it well and truly carves you open and injects itself furiously into your heart and soul with relentless and hateful black arts which are all delivered with spite and malevolent intentions.

From the opening powerful and vindictive roars of title track the speed and viciousness doesn’t relent for one moment. The furious and hateful deliverance of each track is served with pinpoint precision and intricate passion. The string work sitting behind each track is ferocious and barbaric, merciless to the core and overflowing with decadent venomous abhorrence and loathing.

‘Myrkkya’ is slightly slower than its album siblings, allowing for more of a heaviness to the detestation which infiltrates your very being. The chords and bass lines seem more purposeful and forceful, adding some real muscle to the whole attraction and allowing you to get to grips with some brutal and powerful black virtuosities.

The vocals throughout the whole cacophony of abhorrent and toxic spite are the epitome of raw Black Metal which Azaghal seem to be able to pull under their control, digest, and then spit out with their own unique flavouring, such as a highland cow which has just been unleashed after being scorched with its owner’s moniker branded on their rump.

‘Alttarimme On Luista Tehty’ is eleven tracks of noxious blasts, each brimming over with depraved and violent savagery yet if you allow yourself to delve into its very existence then you will find a true beauty sitting beneath the surface. If you allow yourself to be immersed in this corrupted and immoral outing, and you survive to the closing chords of ‘Seitseman Ihmisen Irvikuvaa’, then you will have survived a tsunami of abuse and debauched rioting.

When they say that what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger, no truer could this be the case than when you survive this particular Finnish onslaught.

(9/10 Phil Pountney)

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