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Black vinyl with lyric insert

Sinful Birth, is Antichrist’s follow up to their debut record Forbidden Worlds . It isn’t some creatively-bankrupt homage nor is it a cynical cash-in by a band using nostalgia to stave off the rot of irrelevancy. No, this is the genuine product, a record exhumed from a musty time-capsule, unperturbed by modernity. For you flat-earthers with your calendar pinned to “1986,” read no further. Strap on your bandoliers, slip on your studded-leather armlets and proceed without rest until you have bought, borrowed or engaged in mortal combat to acquire Sinful Birth. As for the rest of you hemming and hawing about whether this album necessitates the parting of currency from wallets, read on. My criticisms are few and stem primarily from the record’s reluctance to deviate from anything that isn’t fast, loud and unrepentantly aggressive. Personally, I enjoy it when thrash bands stop to smell the roses, doling out measured numbers such as “Call of Ktulu,” “Dead Skin Mask” and “In My Darkest Hour.” These moments serve to break up the rancour and allow fatigued ears a moment’s respite. Antichrist have no truck with this attitude, their vision of the future being a boot stamping on a human face – forever. This is purely a matter of preference, and as I outlined in the introduction, not an issue for those who covet such a dogged approach. With Sinful Birth, Antichrist have fashioned a crude wickerman built from the sclerotic bones of Slayer, Venom and pre-Dickinson Iron Maiden that burns with an unquenchable fire. Thankfully their single-mindedness has borne fruit ripe for the taking. Just don’t expect to be surprised.

Track list:
1. Instruments Of Sadism
2. Savage Mutilations
3. The Entity
4. Under The Cross
5. The Black Pharaoh
6. Sinful Birth
7. Burned Beyond Recognition
8. Chernobyl 1986
9. Fall Of The Temple Of Solomon