Behold Jesus...False prophet, liar and scoundrel. It is you who are thy scourge on mankind. Austria’s Lucifer minion BELPHEGOR declares you as such, with malice and hurtful intent. Each guitar riff is a uncoiled whip lashed upon your stricken body, every rumbling bass note a pestilence in your bowels, each double bass flagellation a barrage of satanic machine gun fire riddling your mind with bullets, every vocal ushered an abomination cursing you from the infernal pits, and if Mary wants to intervene they will surely fuck her then gut her. Evil through and through BELPHEGOR presents their newest masterpiece with brutal aplomb...as subtly as a bomb raid on an innocent town, that is.

First cut "Belphegor-Hell's Ambassador" is the enochian key that opens the gates to a new kind of Hell. The structures are a tad more streamlined on this venture than last offering "Goatreich-Fleshcult" but that just helps in honing the knife to a finer point...all the more better to disembowel you with my dear. “Chants for the Devil" bludgeons like a battering ram on permanent attack mode whilst libido elects a filthy poetic muse by the moniker of Caligula during "Sanctus Perversum" with its hoary declarations of ‘Gaping corn holes-raining cum’ and more disgustingly ‘ass for an ass-cunt for a cunt’. Definitely a reenactment of a pornographic romp during an ancient Hellfire mass as well as a slight deviation from your standard Black/Death Metal lyrical fare. Rottingly refreshing.

I often envision BELPHEGOR as Germany's answer to BEHEMOTH because of similarities in sonic velocity and MORBID ANGEL for its pinch harmonic flourishes. Quite honestly nothing new yet their unwavering dedication and petrified iron will casts them aside as a uniquely dynamic breed, especially considering that they formed in 1991. Like Lemmy, Alice Cooper, Vader and KING DIAMOND they simply won't be extinguished and that endears us all unfailingly to their music. Whether it's cataclysmic and doom laden "Miasma Epilog”, pure berserker rage "Angel Of Retribution" or mythically exotic "V11 Bluhtstrum Erotika" BELPHEGOR deliver the goods and with thy aide of unclean spirits, sacrificial virgin's blood and an arsenal of weapons at their disposal BELPHEGOR is poised to topple the holy kingdom and reign supreme. Blast this fucker at your next church burning raid!!