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usually don’t expect much more than a medium level force, but with ALTAR it’s something different. The vocals are really damn killer, clearly understandable

yet roaring like the best of Death Grunts. Musically the whole production is excellent, while their lyrics maintain their typical straight in your face

hatred towards religion approach. No band that I remember has such a neat, explicit pronunciation against God and religion which makes me definitely smile.

Although never overly fast, the music attains to high voltage moshing slams and articulated, long solos. A band with a strong identity and definitely a beast

for killer shows on stage.

music like Death Metal. The feeling I got while listening this CD is to have heard the arrangements a thousand times when I was in school. They sound like a

mid to high technical thrash metal band with some pretences at the Death Metal world when it comes to vocals, which are irrevocably paired by some late

METALLICA laments. Skilful maybe, but the music decomposes easily lacking of the glue of a real identity. The music falls apart under your ears, leaving you

with the impression to be listening to some easily forgettable radio music. Could really be some proficient adolescents at their first approach to heavy

music. All in all I don’t even see an immediate chance of getting better as they really are nothing more than smoke.

original and fierce Death Metal band with the right amount of Black Metal creepiness into it to create a malignant feeling over a strong backbone which can

be traced even (though sadly not for the entire light of the disc) to CENTURIAN or BEHEMOTH and other Death Metal discharges. It’s a real pity after the

first pounding minutes the disc falls more and more into a stronger and stronger Black Metal (old Norwegian Black Metal a la early IMMORTAL) mood

crisscrossed here and there by ballads and stuff. recurrently however the band springs out of its slumber and gets back into attack. I am not exactly sure if

I like the overlll effect but this is a band which as a good spin generally talking. I should get a few more listens maybe. Production is (too much) clean

and accurate which somewhat spoils some of the filth which would have added lot of attractiveness to the album but well. So what.