AZARATH
Praise The Beast, LP, CD, Digi-Pak
(Agonia Records 2009)

Argh, this super-evil bastards from Poland always gave me a big slap in the face, when I was listening to their music! After the 2006 monster "Diabolic Impious Evil" I was completely excited to hear the new material and hell yes, they even topped the material. Fast, brutal and over the top evilness as their forerunner DAMNATION, with a great atmosphere and total dedication to the old American death metal roots mixing it up with the typical Polish style! The guitar section is kicking out one great riff after the other, the fast-forward drumming is nearly excellent and the vocals are brutal as fuck, but still understandable. Every fuckin track has a special feeling, so it's really hard to mention one of twelve! Listen to it if you are worshipping records like "Rebel Souls", "Altars Of Madness" or "Legion". On the digi-pak and vinyl (ltd. 500) version is also a bonustrack in form of "Ave Satanas", which is from ACHERON's classical and best record "Rites Of The Black Mass". Perhaps it's a little bit to slow for AZARATH, but still a good song to say goodbye. Highly recommended!!! Oh yes, latest news Bruno (bass/vocals) has left the band in December'09 and was replaced by Necrosodom (ex-THRONEUM). LP is limited to 500 copies.


Links:
www.azarath.tcz.pl
www.myspace.com/azarath666
www.agoniarecords.com