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In 2018, Blasphamagoatachrist was first summoned by the gods of war to continue the siege that its members had previously waged in such notorious hordes as Blasphemy, Goatpenis, and Antichrist (Can). With its debut demo, Black Metal Warfare, the band silenced any skepticism about whether another black metal "supergroup" could bear the flame first lit by its members' main projects decades earlier.
Now, Blasphamagoatachrist triumphantly returns with its debut full-length, Bastardizing the Purity, further solidifying the band as an entity of its own and worthy of its members' collective pedigree. As the demo did two years earlier, Bastardizing the Purity exemplifies the ferocity with which early-to-mid 1990s bestial black metal emasculated the more impotent efforts of its contemporaries.
Each irreverent hymn is propelled by the combined tactical strikes of Sabbaoth (bass) and Tyrant Virrugus (guitars), while Incinerator of Lacerated Angels and Coffin Destruction (drums) carpet-bombs the battlefield. Commanding the relentless annihilation from above is Nocturnal Grave Desecrator and Black Winds (vocals).
The result of this eleven-track onslaught is an album that establishes Blasphamagoatachrist as a force to be reckoned with, rising independently above the pretenders to the throne of today's bestial black metal scene.
— C. Conrad
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