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The Baneful Choir NORMA EVANGELIUM DIABOLI

Madrid’s true cult maestros go for the jugular

With releases by Drastus, Deathspell Omega, Misþyrming, and now Teitanblood, 2019 has been a hell of a year for French label Noevdia. Teitanblood’s third full-length will lob your noggin off at the stump and leave your useless torso spouting like a decorative water fountain. Razored black/death metal is unleashed with miasmic hellfire here, the LP landing in the middle ground between the doomed-out, fetid death of 2009’s Seven Chalices and the echoing, thrashing frenzy of 2014’s Death. And like the time between those more-kvltthan-thou albums, we will have another five years to build an arcane monument to The Baneful Choir’s

undiluted underground ethos and maniacal pursuit of sonic annihilation. ■■■■■■■■■■

FOR FANS OF: Grave Miasma, Diocletian, Deiphago

DEAN BROWN