BLACK ALTAR - POLAND - BLACK METAL
Here we are to present and review "Suicidal Salvation" the new mini-CD and second release for Polish Black Metal titans Black Altar this year ! This is a darkly terrorizing, frightening hollow and yet brutal black metal piece, a must for adepts of bands like Belphegor, Marduk, Necrophobic, Watain, Tjuder, Immortal, Dark Funeral and more! Without a doubt a great step forwards in the diabolical sinister sound of Black Altar, going darker and deeper than ever before in all this years of unholy existence!
"Suicidal Salvation" is a great piece in every die hard black metal fan collection. Inhale the darkest winds of destruction in a haunted atmosphere of terrorizing blasphemy! Suicide is the only salvation for the weak minded on this kingdom of human slavery... unleash the chains and be the King of your own realm or fall deep into deaths embrace!!
NeKronos Promotion HELL
Black Altar - Mini-CD
- “Suicidal Salvation” - 2013 -
Darker than Black
Records
Genre:
Black Metal
"(...)It was obvious – either you or me
Death fell in love with you
Making me merely her helper
… in order to seduce you(...)" Black Altar -
The Sentence
The band:
BLACK ALTAR Polish black metal titans have unleashed their second release in
2013, this mini-CD goes by the title of "Suicidal Salvation"
and it was intended to be a split cd with the Swedish black metal legends
Shinning.
For all those unfamiliar with Black Altar, I can tell you
that they've been born in a blasphemous Sabbath in the Night of Walpurgia
Anno Bastardi 1996 by the hand of the dark lord Shadow, their only remaining
and founding
member. Since those times that the band has been rising with unholy strength to set a mark
on Polish black metal scene, yet within the years, the band became a true legend
on what they do.
Always true to the
underground black metal movement, they've been raising fans all across all this vast metal
universe! This unholy crusade by the Black Altar guardian Shadow
has given the band allot of respect on this strict musical genre.
The new album musicaly:
With their upgraded brutal and very own
terrorizing black metal sound, Black Altar have reached a new level with
"Suicidal Salvation" a great step forwards from "Death Fanaticist"
(latest full length album) who got tons of great reviews, yet with this new
piece of the band is making fans anxious for the next full-length album to come!
"Suicidal Salvation" presents a renewed Black Altar sound,
unleashing the same
formula that given them their own identity but this time with the add of a darker brutal sound. Never before they
have been closer to death metal fierceness, this aspect will probably please the fans of a
more aggressive approach to black metal. A sound that shall please fans of band
like Belphegor, Marduk, Necrophobic, Watain, Tjuder, Immortal, Dark Funeral and
more!
This conjured diabolical destructive sound shall feast the tortured
souls appetite for a rough, yet brutal black metal sound. Still dirty and
unclean but
more powerful and destructive than ever before!
The lyrics and concept of the album:
"Suicidal Salvation"
main concept deals with ending up your own life and entering the world
beyond life itself as yet the great cover art by Babalon Graphics
reflects. A journey where life and death are just in a distance of an act of
self-offering. Black Altar takes your possessed soul deep into the lands
of the dead, a realm so close to us all in a ritual suicide distance away.
Within this release you will receive a glimpse of how it shall be, this world
beyond life... and death!
The band members and album production:
On Black Altar's terror scenario Shadow is the voice of horror
in such frostbitten dark brutal blaspheme atmosphere! The work of Horizon
on the tortured guitars and Horn of the Antichrist on drums sure bring
Black Altar to a new level of intensity and dark brutality! The blackened
rough production on BAT studio by Marek Heimburger sure catches
the right sound for this album, forget about a crystal clean sound, this sound
was meant to be dark and ugly, yet with due definition so that the details
won't be washed away with the abusive uncleanness! Think that this albums
underground black metal sound couldn't be much better than it is!
The album track-by-track:
The mini-CD works as whole, from the coldly dark piano intro on "The
Sentence", a brutally dark track where Black Altar unleashes
their horror
identity on it's highest levels, followed by the title track "Suicidal
Salvation" ignited by the blackest flames of hell, here the bright use of hollow
keyboards sure add some melody to the darkest brutal sound.
Time to go deeper and
darker than black with the instrumental "Journey
to the Astral Realm
", a trip into the darkest catacombs of hellish
phantasmagoria, an unholy portrait of darkest musical art. "Pulse ov the Universe"
brings forth Black Altar with their traditional terrorizing black metal
sound,
unclean and unholy as it can be. This album ends up with one of the most
addicting tracks that the band has created so far, it goes by the suggestive
title of "666 Mega Beast", addicting and so damn brutal, it was
made to haunt
your tortured ears for a long, long time!! "666 Mega Beast" the mighty devilish
beast of the night!
The Epilog:
In all "Suicidal Salvation" MCD
is
a
great black metal piece for adepts of deeply dark, sinister and unholy brutal black metal,
as obscure as it can be! A must-have piece of horror in the darkest form of
metal art! Blackest anthems of destruction and spine chilling atmospheres take
this album to the best material being done in the genre. Death awaits us
all, it's up to us how we both meet in the end, if by our own hand or by the
hands of others. Lead your life and make your own destiny... then you will
conquer death herself!!
RüPä - NeKronos Promotion HELL
RATE: 8,5/10
(Rating for MCD)
Black Altar - "Suicidal Salvation" - CD 2013
1 - The Sentence
2 - Suicidal Salvation
3 - Journey to the Astral Realm (instrumental)
4 - Pulse ov the Universe
5 - 666 MegaBeast
Total playing time = 24m
Recording Line-up (BLACK ALTAR):
SHADOW - Vokills, Bass and Death Spells
HORIZON - Guitars
HORN OF ANTICHRIST - Drums
Check out the Mini-CD Teaser for "Suicidal Salvation":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ksvDEWfjs
Check out "The Sentence" audio clip:
http://youtu.be/qCcA7pRH-ls
For further Information check:
OFFICIAL SITE: HTTP://WWW.BLACK-ALTAR-HORDE.COM
MYSPACE: HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/BLACKALTARHORDE
FACEBOOK PROFILE: http://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/BLACKALTAR
BOOKING / CONTACT: SHADOW666@INTERIA.PL
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