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- Intro (Carpe Noctum)
02 - Entering The Diabolic Trinity
03 - Demonized
04 - Descent Of The Holy
05 - Unleash The Wolves
06 - Under A Black Spell
07 - Realm Of Carnage
08 - Triumph Of Darkness
09 - In The Circle Of Hell
10 - Into The Massacre |
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Engineered by: Nick Kucel.
Recorded at: Innertube Studios.
Mixed at: Innertube Studios.
Artwork & layout: Juan Castellano. |
Behind The Veil Webzine January 2006
Review
RATING: 7/10
Sathanas is a band with a long history behind them, a history
that counts almost 20 years, since this U.S. based band was
formed back in 1988. Actually, Sathanas is one of those misfortuned
bands that despite the fact that they have interesting and
catchy music to offer us, they have been confronted with obstacles
deriving from record labels going bankrupt. So, all these
years the band has released 6 albums and a couple of EPs and
thus we come to the present, when the band has signed a deal
with Pulverised records and delivers to us their next opus
under the very eloquent and suitable -for their sound- title
"Entering The Diabolic Trinity". I suppose by now
all of you have realized that Sathanas plays black metal,
but not black metal as it turned out to be and sound nowadays.
The band remains loyal to the original, old fashioned and
primitive black metal sound as it was carved back in the 80s
by enormous bands of the genre, such as VENOM and BATHORY.
Their compositions have a classic "rotten" scent
with catchy riffs, stable rhythm section, hellish vocals and
a "muddy" production, which create a final result
that will satisfy the blacksters all around the world. I think
it's time to pay the devil his dues and give to Sathanas the
recognition they deserve. Don't you think? (Nick "William_Kidd"
Parastatidis)
SOD Magazine #22
RATING: 9 SKULLS
The wolves' howl shatters the deadly calm of the frozen night.
Trapped...your leg shattered and crushed under the huge boulder,
you drink the last sip of water in your canteen and try, once
again, to summon the strength to pull yourself free. Exhausted,
you look to the wall of the canyon and see the first set of
red eyes peering down at you from above. A sudden jolt of
fear causes your bladder and bowels to empty and you wallow
in your own filth as the wolves make their way cautiously
down the steep face of the canyon. You close your eyes and
pray to your god that this is all a terrible nightmare but
when you feel the teeth grabbing and pulling at your limbs
you know this is all too real. Your life's blood draining
away, you open your eyes for the final time to see that you
are Entering the Diabolic Trinity. (David Horn)
Beowolf Productions & Treats From The Underground
December 2005 Review
SATHANAS is a band band most underground people should know
by now. These guys have been in the scene for some time now
& are still going strong. These guys play Death Metal
music with lots of Black Metal & Thrash metal influences
tossed in the mix. The music is hyper fast at times &
then more mid ranged & a bit of groove oriented Metal.
There are some good hooks as well in the songs. The vocals
are done in a mid ranged harsh Black/Thrash Metal style as
well as some low end Death Metal growls. These guys are one
of the best in the scene today & are better than ever!!!
Behind The Veil Webzine December 2005
Review
RATING: 7/10
Sathanas is a legendary black metal band. Formed back in the
middle of the 80s and have already released four albums and
various promo and demo CDs. So, now the band strikes back
with their fifth album. The new CD has the title "Entering
The Diabolic Trinity" and was released back in September
through Pulverised Records. In these nine tracks the band
offers us forty minutes that every fan of good and traditional
black metal will adore! Don't be afraid to taste the music
of Sathanas, if you believe that you are into the black metal
part of music then give a chance to yourself and hear this
opus. Sathanas has created well worked compositions with good
enough ideas but above all with passion for black metal. Try
to find this album in order to listen by yourselves to this
very good piece of music. (Antonis Maglaras)
Black Minds
RATING: 9/10
“Oozing pus icons show a baby with divided tongue, bearing
by a female creature with a monstrous image. Tentacles, wrapping
up bracelets, move and sully by their poisonous slime. Nuns,
receiving communion by sperm, have coition with the Goat.
Stench and blood are everywhere…”. Having foreseen
the final of christianity Sathanas recorded “Entering
The Diabolical Trinity” – frankly a Devilish creation
adjusted and harmonious as an inquisition mechanism for tortures.
The Americans recorded the typical to their scene manner black-death
metal in about equal proportion. At first slow compositions
start gathering speed and at long last turn into real diabolism.
Death metal influence is quite noticeable here – first
of all there are the riffs themselves and typical to the style
play, secondly the sound turned to be rich and very heavy.
The work of the drummer, dealing blows as sharply as by a
hummer, attracts one’s attention. Fortunately the band
could escape the peculiar to some American hordes defect which
is in primitive turning christianity inside out. Because of
such deeds I don’t like American Black metal considering
its musical and ideological immaturity. The meeting with this
band appeared a pleasant discovery – in Sathanas’s
music one can feel something evil and devilish as an inexorable
fate augural forthcoming death and destruction! The lyrics
are ok for what I’m glad. There are some atmosphere
sketches which as a smell of sulfur stress general depressing
mood adding fresh blood into infernal flame. Conclusion: Sathanas
not only follow the Dark way but they are also talented musicians.
“Entering The Diabolical Trinity” is a really
furious work. Recommended! Ave Satanas!!! (Sulpher)
The Metal Nightmare
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like forever since SATHANAS
had a new release. But here at last, and with yet another
label (or labels... Pulverised is handling the CD, Iron Pegasus
the vinyl), is the new SATHANAS release. This is one of those
rare occasions where the wait has been worth it. The production
really makes this album sound as good as it should be. It's
a little raw, but in the same way that old VENOM or KREATOR
albums were raw. This is the perfect example of how to do
a raw sounding album correctly. The music is of course old
school black/death with a touch of thrash for good measure.
The guitars are the most in-your-face thing I've heard in
a long time. SATHANAS don't fuck around here, and they give
us underground hordes exactly what we want. If some little
shit that shops at Hot Topic tells you that EMPEROR's Prometheus
is true underground metal, shove Entering the Diabolic Trinity
in their face and tell them, "NO! THIS is true underground
metal, you worthless trendy fuck!" You can also tell
them that EMPEROR might as well have died after In the Nightside
Eclipse, but I'll leave that up to your discretion. For those
people out there who have poor reading comprehension, that
was not a comparison between SATHANAS and EMPEROR I was making,
so don't email me and tell me that I'm full of shit and that
the two bands don't sound alike. I know that. SATHANAS has
yet to wuss out and create "art" instead of "metal,"
and I don't think that will ever happen with them. Truly satanic
black/death metal bands simply don't do that. Now if you'll
excuse me, I'm going to go drink a beer from the skull of
a goat while I listen to this album again. (Tom Wren)
Beat The Blizzard
RATING: 7/10
American black metal influenced death metallers SATHANAS have
been lurking around in the misty metal underground since 1988.
Founding member and the only remaining original member of
the band, Paul Tucker, didn't want to give up what he started
regardless of the line-up troubles the band experienced over
the years. Not even when the band split up and he formed Bathym.
Despite the problems, SATHANAS has released a handful of albums
on different labels and I bet that Mr. Tucker wants the new
full length album “Entering The Diabolic Trinity”
to be a new start for the band. And yes, it's a good album.
This is good album from an authentic underground band worthy
recognition for hanging in there through difficulties. Not
only because of their stamina in troublesome times, of course,
but definitely also because of the music.
Paul Tucker (vox & guitar) has together with Bill Davidson
on bass and Jim Strauss (ex-Acheron) on drums, come up with
an honest and a catchy death metal album, with a bit different
approach and expression than the majority of other American
death metal bands. And don't expect the average and strictly
genre framed vocals on this record. Mr. Tucker vocal cord
abuse is closer to black metal, but he manages also to use
it in a more deathly fashion and seems to have no problems
changing between the two varieties.
The music is fast and not complicated. I'd say that SATHANAS
represents a sort of old school death metal with a raw and
brutal with catchy musical details on “Entering The
Diabolic Trinity”.
I don't think anyone would be astonishingly impressed if they
could split each instrument from the o thers and listen to
them separately, but I'm sure that a lot of metal and some
black metal fans find that the interplay in this band is good,
that the musicians complement each other great. I think that
Tucker, Davidson and Strauss together as SATHANAS come out
as a tight band without flaws and totally without embarrassing
musical moments on this album.
Musically the songs are getting straight to the point on every
single track and there are no long and dull guitar leads and
other show-off stuff going on here. All instruments get more
the room they need to come through in the soundscape and I
like the dry as bone sounding bass tone. No reason to be modest
in that department to please me. I want more of it!
Some will probably find Tucker's vocals a little over-the-top
shrieky pitching, but I think his aggressive style is something
that makes SATHANAS to what it is, good old school blackened
death metal worthy your attention. (AJ Blisten)
Metal
Storm
RATING: 7,5
Sathanas is potentially a really old band, and that’s
actually very strange because not many people know that name,
the good thing though is these musicians keep doing what they
used to do 17 years ago, Old School Death metal.
What’s the catch? Well, while hearing this album I came
across with a couple of songwriting flaws, for example the
soloing in the first track; the solo per se is complex and
astonishing, but the way they added it to the song sounds
random and irregular, it appears that Sathanas did a whole
bunch of solos and then loaded the best ones to “X”
tune; that’s the main reason of the stained songwriting
as you can perceive.
Then we have the musical abilities, Sathanas is great at it,
the chords and the beats are incredibly well executed and
really polished; music wise this album is a blend between
old school Death Metal and some Black Metal bits, a little
like Behemoth but with more melodies and breakdowns; we all
can appreciate the musicianship in tracks like “Triumph
of Darkness”, which is a really catchy song actually,
filled with a lot of breakdowns, awesome bass-lines (there’s
even a bass-line bridge there), a small solo and complex chords,
you’ll be moshing and head-banging along with the beat
of this song believe me, at least I know I did.
The production is really raw, and that does not mean bad remember,
it just has a different atmosphere that wraps the music in
different kind of bizarre layers that’s all. The music
is actually very good and catchy; it will fit in any Death
Metal collection easily. But what I think is Sathanas must
realize they are competing with bands like Suffocation, Obituary
etc. so they have to create music which beats the hell out
of those bands, creating good solos and catchy riffs is not
enough, they have to create almost faultless music and they
have to polish their songwriting; otherwise they’ll
be another forgotten name in Death Metal books.
Final Verdict: Good album with great Drumming and solos.
Best Tracks: “Triumph of Darkness”, “Descent
of the Holy”. (Herzebeth)
The Metal Crypt
RATING: 4/5
Well this is a nice surprise. Sathanas are a US band who have
been around since 1988, releasing five albums and a slurry
of EPs in that time, and I had never heard of them when this
dropped out of my mailbox. Glad to rectify that oversight,
because this slays.
They may be ex-members of Death Metal stalwarts Acheron, and
they may call themselves Death Metal, but to my ears this
is pure evil Black Metal that someone gave a lethal injection
of Thrash. The attitude and vocals are very BM, but the chugging,
face-pounding riff attack is all Thrash, and all good. These
tunes are all hammering exercises in no-nonsense, go-for-the-neck
thrashing death. Sathanas keep things interesting with time
changes and lots of variety, but these tunes are all about
the Almighty Riff, and as an added bonus, you can actually
understand what the vocalist is screaming about. Killer shredfests
like "Unleash The Wolves" and "Under A Black
Spell" are enough to tell me I need to get more if this
band's stuff asap, because this shit is too much fun for this
band to remain unknown. A gem of an album that fans of Usurper
or old Bathory should not skip. Recommended. ( Sargon the
Terrible)
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