Artist: Gorgoroth 
   Title: Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam
   Label: Regain Records

Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam is the latest release from Norwegian Satanic Black metalists Gorgoroth, a band with more than its fair share history and press since they were formed back in 1992.  With various band member changes due to the likes of lack of focus and dedication to the band, plus some bizarre reasons like musical and ideological incompatibility, combined with such things as even suicide and imprisonments.

Now with what seems to be a more permanent band structure, the band bring back their no holds barred, anything goes, Satanic Black Metal onslaught, back from the realms of the unforgiving.

From the off the album unleashes some of the darkest metal you will ever hear, with the uncompromising lyrical content to the dark menacing vocals of Gaahl and the extreme speed guitars of founding member Infernus, the relentless pounding of Satyricon drummer Frost, backed by the take no prisoners attitude of bass player King.

The album only boasts eight tracks, but this is due to the fact that the human body can only withstand so much intense black hearted metal before you will find yourself drawing pentagrams on the floor and nipping into your local farmers field to find a suitable sacrifice.  The album is not opened up so much as unleashed upon the unsuspecting world with ‘Wound Upon Wound’, a track so brutal that it will make your ears bleed with its ferocity and malevolence.

The pace of the album is unrelenting and never slows down for one minute from the unearthly soundings of ‘Carving A Giant’, the speed fest that is ‘God Seed (Twilight of the Idols)’, the pagan chants of ‘Sign Of An Open Eye’, to the unrelenting pounding of ‘Prosperity and Beauty’, this album will have fans of the genre reeling with delight at the return to form of Norway’s kings of satanic black metal.

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