Like cloven hooves steeped in a bubbling cauldron of seraphim's blood, infant guts and the clipped wings of pure white doves, NIFELHEIM'S newest release “Envoy of Lucifer” submerges all fellow heathens in its rotten vat of pleasurably painful retro metal hell. Kicking up a dirt storm even the likes of Hades has never witnessed the heavily armored madmen strike hard with opener “Infernal Flame of Destruction” flagellating your ears and rattling your con-caved skull into utter, desperate submission. Continuing with the brain battering tempest of riffs that is “Claws of Death” which stomps as vehemently as a steel toed skinhead raid Hellbutcher and his axe n' hammer wielding crew of undesirables continue to make mince meat of all non committed headbangers!!

One of the definitive forefathers of the Swedish Black Metal armada, who along with Marduk, Dissection and Abruptum helped define a new eon of musical devil worship, NIFELHEIM'S berserker rage has not wavered since its illicit inception. Dressed like post apocalyptic warriors with enough spikes, chains and leather to suit a small battalion, not to mention a lethal onslaught of nuclear war immune metal , NIFELHEIM has emerged as a 21st century answer to classic VENOM. Firing on all cylinders for the most part of the CD's duration our psychotic skullets take a slight respite during the pure 80's retro'ism that is “Storm of The Reaper” and a fine ode to nostalgia it is indeed as it transcends time itself by mimicking British Steel 'era JUDAS PRIEST to a tee but with an unholy minion providing the possessed roar. Get this astronomical ode to Lucifer now and worship thy beast in tandem!!