on: *** Denmark ***


Biography:

Originally formed in early 2002 by S. and Hellpig, both active in the extreme metal underground since the early nineties, the filthy ugly beast that is Horned Almighty was puked from the gutters of Hell initially as a duo. First intented as a sideproject, Horned Almighty quickly became first priority and shortly after the first primitive demo had been recorded, the drum-throne was seized by Harm.

In 2004 material were written for the first three releases and after this, the stage was set for pure desecration and blasphemy! Three albums later, with the latest album “Necro Spirituals” being released by Candlelight Records and highly acclaimed, the blasphemous bastards can celebrate ten years of complete utter darkness and malicious mockery.

Mixing the primitivism of Celtic Frost with the aggression of Discharge and the ugliness of Autopsy, all drenched in the eerie and disturbing rot of early nineties Black Metal. As one fan noted: ”This sounds like a fucking Missouri-class canon shot at the Vatican!”. Horned Almighty has proven they are no Sunday church choir on stage and has played many gigs and festivals in Denmark, United Metal Maniacs in Germany, Inferno Festival in Norway and in 2011 they did a European tour with Glorior Belli from France.

The music is intentionally written to destroy all boundaries on stage, crushing all doctrines and rules with their “Don’t give a shit” take on black metal, as a testament to all that is extreme!

ANNO 2014
The last three years has been spent creating the most important album in the history of the band. Songs were created, destroyed, puked forth again and this has ended up in the album "World of Tombs", the fifth album by the band. Once again mixed by J. Bredahl (Ex-Hatesphere, The Kandidate, Barcode etc) in Deadrat Studios, this nine song opus is by far the best and strongest material recorded by the band. The diversity between fast and furious punkish black metal and heavy crushing doomy metal gives the listener absolutely no chance of reconciliation, before the last sounds fade out. All wrapped in a thick, heavy and crunchy production, sure to pound the living daylights out of every speaker! An album which will equally appeal to both the regular metal fan and those into the underground scene.



Review:


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Horned Almighty know what they want, and they know how to make it happen. From the shit-kicking swagger of the album’s title track — replete with pumping, jackhammer riffage, brutish, bellowing vocals, and rib-cracking drum work – through to the ominous grind and blackened groove of closer “Blessed By Foulness”, the Danish deviants unleash a sickening torrent of rabid hostility and ugly misanthropy over a chaotic cacophony of pustulent riffs, choking bass-lines, and neck-snapping drums.

The band’s sound, a thrashed-up and scathingly savage form of Black Metal, delivered with a perverse, punkish energy and a rumbling, clanking Death Metal backbone, is instantly recognizable and instantly gratifying, and picks up pretty much right where their previous album, the damningly aggressive Necro Spirituals, left off.

If anything, World of Tombs might even be a little darker and a little more depraved than its predecessor, immediately grabbing the listener by the throat and proceeding to drown their screams and struggles beneath a torrent of blackened bile and metallic filth. It’s undoubtedly ferocious and pestilentially infectious, and utterly, unrepentantly, nihilistic to the core.

It’s the sort of album that just wants to watch the world burn…

If you ever wondered what might happen if you locked members of Mayhem, Autopsy, and The Misfits in a room together with nothing but a bunch of instruments, knives, and high-grade methamphetamines, then wonder no more, as it’s likely you’d get something pretty damn close to the chaos-infused racket put out by Horned Almighty.

The pedal-to-the-metal black thrash attack of “Diabolical Engines of Torment” fuses murderous metallic rage with touches of sludgy dissonance and decayed melody, while the militant death march of “Unpure Salvations” unleashes barrage after barrage of weaponised aggression with its monstrous, stomping chorus and sudden eruptions of blasting insanity.

The death-punk swing of “Plague Propaganda” is a blitzkrieg bop of blasphemy and brutality, mixing filth-drenched riffs and searing, cyanide-laced tremolo melodies into an ugly, diseased morass of infectious grooves and seething hatred, followed up by the thrash-injected frenzy that is “Of Flesh and Darkness”, whose rage-fuelled muscle and gnawingly addictive, narcotic rhythms land it somewhere between early Entombed and latter-day Goatwhore, only with more demonic rage.

“In Torture We Trust Pt. II” is a methodical ground-and-pound assault of sledgehammer riff-bombs and scathing, blackened blasting, topped off with an unexpected dose of eerie melody, leading into the stabbing guitar work and deathly intensity of “This Unholy Dwelling”, a savage, back-alley knife-fight of murderous Black Metal madness, packing an abattoir’s armoury of rusted, razor-edged hooks and slicing, serrated riffs into a lethally efficient package.

The sickening strut and sadistic sneer “Blessed By Foulness” closes the album and that, barring a grim, guerilla warfare-style cover of Autopsy’s “Twisted Mass of Burnt Decay”, is all she wrote. The fat lady has sung, and then been strangled with her own disemboweled intestines. It’s all over, time to bury the dead and rack up the body-count.

Because really, when an album like this comes along you only get two options: run and hide, or join in with the depravity.

My advice is to get down deep in the blood and the filth with the rest of us.

Line-up:

S - Preaching & Hellfire
Hellpig - Guitars
Haxen - Bass
Harm - Drums


Horned Almighty - World Of Tombs (2014)




CBR @ 320kbps



Tracklist:

1. Intro 01:01
2. World of Tombs 04:20
3. Diabolical Engines of Torment 03:36
4. Unpure Salvation 04:04
5. Plague Propaganda 04:00
6. …of Flesh and Darkness 04:05
7. In Torture We Trust pt. II 04:25
8. This Unholy Dwelling 03:45
9. Blessed by Foulness 06:46
10. Twisted Mass of Burnt Decay (Autopsy cover) 02:2




Genre: Black
Subgenre: Deathened black metal
Bitrate: 320 k
Size: 88.22 MB
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