Nergal has defeated leukemia and hosted a Polish version of The Voice, all while creating brutal death metal. It’s kind of hard not to root for the guy.
The 90 second “Satan Sucker” manages to cram in an unsettling intro, a freight train midsection, and a lurching, menacing outro before you can come up for air.
Adapting Kiss’ Creatures of the Night to Preachers of the Night is funny. If it’s serious, that’s dopey. It’s multilayered powermetal, could go either way.
An incredible step forward for these up-and-comers, and they already had their Mercyful Fate-inspired heavy metal down pretty cold on their last album.
They’ve been on a resurgence since Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us. Someone decided it was time to shake out an album’s worth of b-sides and rarities.