Widely considered one of the first "war metal" albums - if not THE first, actually - BESTIAL WARLUST's debut was a shockingly violent and utterly barbaric slab of black metal that literally had no peer upon its release in 1994. It spawned countless imitators in the two decades since that original release and even furthered the "bestial metal" subgenre so prolific today, but there's simply no substitute for the original - and HELLS HEADBANGERS couldn't be prouder to reissue it alongside the second album, Blood & Valour. SATANIC WAR METAL...BESTIAL fucking WARLUST!!!
"BESTIAL WARLUST were indeed stocked with an arsenal like no other. Their moniker, the cover artwork, the verbiage, the look, the sheer sawn-off, noise-annoys oblivion they sought and then wielded with an iron fist...this was WAR METAL at Year Zero, and it's captured brilliantly. The sound itself is a weapon; barbaric crush is substituted for conventional riffs, and they wander about in a drunken haze of chaotic abandon. Even more garish and exaggerated than Blasphemy's, the short/sharp/shocked bursts of "guitar solo" are the accidentally avant-garde covering fire." - ZERO TOLERANCE magazine WAR METAL special.
Das Black-Metal-Urgestein DARKMOON WARRIOR entfesselt abermals das Chaos! Die Band aus Brandenburg gehört zu den dienstältesten im deutschen Underground und zu jenen, die authentisch die Flamme des Schwarzmetalls am Lodern halten – wie auch ihr neues Werk »Graveyard Planet« aufs Eindrucksvollste beweist.
This piece of US Black Metal History, compiling both demo recordings of Grand Belial’s Key, comes with heavy vinyl and printed inner sleeve. As long as stock lasts, we will include the LP sized booklet of the previous double lp pressing, which includes an exclusive interview, old pictures etc.