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PAGAN RITES
Pagan Metal:Roars of the Anti christ
(Atolinga Records)
33:20min

What we’ve got here is a collection of tracks that is
going to be released in different formats later this
year, as split-singles or 7”es by labels as Hell’s
Headbangers and Iron Pegasus, as well as a complete
collection on CD by Atolinga Records. If you’re familiar
with this act around the infamous Devil Lee Rot (dear
kids: don’t use pseudonyms such as this at home if you
should ever feel the need to be taken seriously) you probabl
y know that their definition of Pagan Metal is quite
different
from what this term stands for nowadays. So don’t expect
acoustic interludes or the excessive use of mouthharps,
flutes ‘n fiddles, but primitive and simple blackened
Thrash that is the very definition of oldschool. To me this
kind of retro-music has always been a kind of a double-edged
sword, since the legendary acts that all these bands relate
to,
were trying to create the most violent and dark music they
could imagine back in their days. That’s what makes all these
classic albums the monoliths they truly are and for me it’s
simply not possible to recreate that special feeling nowadays
by using the same methods and song-writing-formulas. Instead
the result to me always has an unpleasant taste of staleness
and false nostalgia, since this ‘Those were the days’-attitude
takes away too much of the original intention of this music
which was to praise the morbid and occult and not delivering
the soundtrack to happy teenage-memories. Well, after
all that’s just me and if you understood or even shared
the euphoria around the last DARKTHRONE-record you
might just as well check this one out. At least these
guys seem to be really dedicated, in contrary to all the
GEHENNAH’s, INFERNÖ’s or NOCTURNAL BREED’s back in the
nineties who were straight out parody. Up the irons!?!

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Doomish Black Thrashy Pagan Metal
Good Stuff!!!!!

 John (PATHOS PRODTUCTION) USA