Many of you like me had that old Turbo Records release from the early 1990s when death metal was as scarce as honest used car salesmen. Somewhere between death metal, early black metal, speed metal hybrids like Necronomicon, and doom metal, this album graced many a tape deck, turntable, or CD player.

Recently, Kenyon Records re-issued Rites of the Black Mass in a new double CD with demos as well as several vinyl pressings. Probably one of the first albums by a band involved with actual Satanic, Luciferian, and occult organizations, it remains a historical landmark for early underground metal.

Tags: acheron, Black Metal, Satanism