REIGN IN BLOOD (Ger) – Missa Pro Defunctis LP

Truly ‘old-soul black metal,’ there is nothing trendy nor nice about REIGN IN BLOOD’s attack here: featuring both ultraviolence and melody, hammering primitivism and fleet-footed complexity, haunting atmospheres and dizzying delirium, Missa Pro Defunctis is an album of stark contrasts that somehow is threaded together with the most elusive ‘n’ sulfurous magick.