Artist: Enthroned  
   Title: Tetra Karcist
   Label: Napalm Records

When I was just a young and inexperienced in the world of metal, I was taken over by the darkside and got very hooked on the original lords of Black Metal Venom, not because they were a local band from Newcastle and the surrounding area, but because they were different.

And that what every young metalhead needs these days is something to upset his (or her!) mum and dad, and to drive the neighbours and their dog insane as you play your music at full blast and refuse to conform to what is supposed to be the norm. 

Now one band that fit all the categories of the above are Belgian Black Metallers Enthroned, who have been around since the genre was born it seems, with various band member changes a suicide along the way.  The road has always been somewhat challenging shall we say for these monsters of the Black Metal genre and this new album sees the band undertake another change.  No they haven’t gone all nu-metal, but in January this year Nornagest took over vocal duties as Sabathan left the band.  Also the return of Phorgath to the horde as bass player and Ahephaim now on drums, the metal horde is once again treading the dark and punishing metal path with their new opus 'Tetra Karcist'.

The album itself is Metal by numbers with the exception of the addition growls and grunts from the voice box of Nornagest, which bring a sort of new ferocity to the whole Enthroned sound (he screams much better).

The screaming guitars and pummelling bass tones are still their in abundance with tracks of not like ‘Prey’ and the titanic ‘Tellum Scorpionis’, which will have even the darkest corners of Hades trembling.  There's also the blistering ‘The Seven Ensigns of Creation’ which is sure to have the die hard Black Metal fans in positive raptures.  At a mere thirty seven minutes long the pain barrier will reach you sooner than you think

Tracklisting:

   1. Ingressus Regnum Spiritus
   2. Pray
   3. Tellum Scorpionis
   4. Deviant Nerve Angelus
   5. The Burning Dawn
   6. Through The Cortex
   7. The Seven Ensigns Of Creation
   8. Nox
   9. Vermin
  10. Antares

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