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Band
Blasphemy Rites
Title
Hideous Lord
Type
LP/EP
Company
Pagan
YOR
2010
Style
Black
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Blasphemy Rites proper full-length debut album has a sound that embraces Poland's now solidified black/death metal hybrid whilst remaining underground. The concepts are definitely purist, however the modern production has eliminated all traces of echo and static. This allows the songs to maintain the death-like intensity heard on tracks like Genocide and Damned Bastard of Hell.
This is a sterling example of an underground metal record, and with 15 tracks of pure satanic fervor, Hideous Lord brings you into the coven.
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Hideous Lord 2010 Pagan Ben McCraw 6/26/2010 4
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