Yet another album that I think has a too clean production... I always liked ANCIENT RITES a lot and musically this is an absolute masterpiece. They finally found the perfect synthesis of their NWOBHM roots (like on their "Dark Ritual" demo) and their later recordings which were more in the Death Thrash direction. I don't want to go on for a page how great this album is, just fucking buy it, you won't regret it unless you're a braindead norsecore idiot. But then you might die from an overdose of Heavy Metal which would be fine with me... On a scale from 0 to 10 this would get 11,5... need I say more ? Oh, of course, you probably won't find it thanx to their stupid label who decided to pack the CD in pink plastic...

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