Treblinka fucking destroyed if you were to ask me. The 7" was like a musical holocaust descending upon, well, Treblinka! Some of you are probably looking at this and going: "Huh?". Well, this isn't quite the same band as today's Tiamat. Corpse paint! Bullet Belts! Spikes! Song titles like: "Evilized" and "The Sign of the Pentagram". Yes, this is where Tiamat started.

The influences are very standard. Just listen to "The Malicious Paradise" for example. Hellslaughter (!) says: "Ok Juck, let's start the song out ala Slayer". "Ok Hellslaughter" says Juck, "but only if we can rip off "The Return of Darkness and Evil" nearly riff by riff AND the entire chorus pattern!". Still, the death-thrash influence is larger than life here, and the album as a whole probably isn't what you'd expect. It doesn't technically hold up by today's standards, and may bore a few, but it is a solid evil-metal black/death album. And the generic 80s metal collage for packaging is the perfect old-school touch!

Someone re-released this a year or two back in a digipak, although I'm not sure if they made any changes in terms of sound/bonus tracks.

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