... Everything begins with the purity and aggression of the 80s Bay Area thrash scene, but SKELETONWITCH further fuels its evil onslaught with elements of black and Viking metal while proudly waving the NWOBHM flag. Imagine a young Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Exodus slamming beers and cranking up Immortal records at a rager in 1985. Just when you think the keg is [...]1. Upon Wings Of Black 2. Beyond The Permafrost 3. Baptized On Flames 4. Sacrifice For The Slaughtergod 5. Vengeance Will Be Mine 6. Limb From Limb 7. Cast Into The Open Sea [...]wersje: CD | LP | | ... The record demonstrates a band coalescing both compositionally and conceptually. Three of the eight tracks on "Devouring Radiant Light" hover near the seven minute mark and a fourth nearly reaches nine minutes. This is a band cultivating [...]1. Fen Of Shadows 2. When Paradise Fades 3. Temple Of The Sun 4. Devouring Radiant Light 5. The Luminous Sky 6. The Vault 7. Carnarium Eternal 8. Sacred Soil wersje: CD | LP | | ... This time around, the band also shows off a few new tricks - note the Scandinavian doom-vibe in the opening of "Unending, Everliving" and the devil's swing of "This Evil Embrace" - but does so without compromising the frosty/fiery/abominable metal spirit or blue-collar humility that has endeared them to so many over the past decade. Ultimately, it's [...]1. Serpents Unleashed 2. Beneath Dead Leaves 3. I Am Of Death / (Hell Has Arrived) 4. From A Cloudless Sky 5. Burned From Bone 6. Unending, Everliving 7. Blade On The Flesh, Blood On My Hands [...]wersje: CD | LPHQ | LP | 6LP | | ... Bassist Evan Linger plays like a possessed Steve Harris. Guitarist Scott Hedrick's lead work displays musicality and feeling rarely seen in extreme metal, and all of this is enhanced by SKELETONWITCH's [...]1. This Horrifying Force / (The Desire To Kill) 2. Reduced To The Failure Of Prayer 3. Of Ash & Torment 4. Choke Upon Betrayal 5. Erased & Forgotten 6. The Infernal Resurrection [...]wersje: CD | LP | 3LPHQ |