BELPHEGOR Conjuring The Dead (2014) CD

Belphegor have been making Austria sound genuinely terrifying since 1991, and they haven't slowed down.

Conjuring The Dead is the band in full command of their black/death hybrid, which by 2014 had been sharpened into something relentless and precise. Helmuth and company have always operated in that zone where black metal atmosphere collides with death metal brutality and neither one blinks, and this record is one of the cleaner examples of that formula at full force. Blast beats, anti-liturgical imagery, riffs that sound like they were written in a crypt. If your collection runs through Marduk and Dark Funeral but you somehow missed this one, correct that immediately.

CD, 2014 release, Austrian black/death metal. Fans of: Marduk, 1349, Immortal, Dark Funeral, Gorgoroth.