REVEREND KRISS HADES The Wind Of Orion Pyramids Of War CD (2002)

Australian black metal from 2002 doesn't get talked about enough outside of the circles that were actually there, and Reverend Kriss Hades was doing things that most of the northern hemisphere hadn't caught up to yet.

This double-header release pairs The Wind of Orion and Pyramids of War on a single disc, a snapshot of one of the more distinct voices to come out of the Australian underground. Hades brought a technical edge to black metal that felt genuinely strange, not just tremolo-and-blast by numbers, and this release sits in that space where the genre was still figuring out how weird it was allowed to get. Essential for anyone building a serious collection of Australian extreme metal.

Format: CD. Full length studio album. Country of origin: Australia.

Fans of: URGRUND, BLACKGOAT, HADEZ, YAMATU, SURRENDER OF DIVINITY, OUROBOROS.