The early fury of ANTAEUS is shown here in this MCD, first "CD recording" of the band. Indeed, the band had already released many demo & live tapes (with incredibly shitty sound !) before this MCD, which was limited to 500 copies only and is now completely sold-out (the rip-offs of Drakkar prods sold a second hand copy of this MCD for about 28 US $ ! ). It features 2 tracks + some "indus-like" intro & outro, and it is quite short (11'), and all these tracks can be found on the "Cut yourself..." CD, released one year later. Here you have barbaric black metal, extremely agressive as few bands can do.

If MARDUK really felt hatred & anger (instead of doing music for the masses) , this would probably be the music they would play. The songs are so intense you are waiting for some rest at the end, then you are tortured by the outro, an invitation for the weak-minded to kill themselves. You can not escape ANTAEUS's fury ! If only the band could have done such releases after this one, instead of releasing such shits as "Cut...." ! So bad...

rating : 8.5 / 10

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