It's always frustrating to discover bands that you've never even heard of throughout your whole metal lifetime and finding out that they were actually so important/musically excellent. VON was so far ahead during their time ('87) that makes them sounds like THE GODS OF BLACK METAL! Even Bathory didn't get to delve into something so remarkable and original. "Satanic Blood" CD is actually a recent re-release of their "CULT"(?) demo '87 that I only realized from the Dark Funeral cover/publicity of the respective title track. Even though Dark Funeral hardly did real justice to the originals, you can feel the extreme filth and perversity from the way the (original) music is written. Imagine those guys from Beherit jamming away in a drunken stupor under the effects of the fullmoon light, drawing the lycanthropic essence of Darkthrone and the sloppy primitive touch of Nunslaughter, then throw in the black candles, pig's blood, infant skulls, etc like a fucking BLACK MASS...  And this guy spews his guttural blackgoat vomit like chanting verses straight out of some black grimoire of perverted satanfuck, while the drumbeats are intensifying the suspense of the final sacrifice. Once the virgin blood flows upon the altar, the demonic pig-faced  hellspawn of VON is born! Tracks like "Devil Pig" (what a title!), "Watain" and the SUPERCULT "Satanic Blood" are enough to blacken up your day in satanic grime. The chilling instrumental "Veadtuck" (the writing almost look like "Deadfuck" on the CD) brings another dimension to VON, with all the riffs and melodies stolen straight out from a horror soundtrack. Actually I see no use in putting up any specific tracks as highlights 'cos the whole album is a masterpiece by itself! Necromaniacs, grave desecrators and church burners should find themselves an instant follower to this supreme EVIL CULT. Forget about the pseudo-evil craps that bands like Abruptum (nothing more than noise!) boast about ; this release is the TRUE AUDIAL ESSENCE OF EVIL!!!!

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