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PROMOTIONAL ONLY means issued by record company in very limited quantity and sent to selected Industry professionals ONLY for promotional consideration/airplay. Never for sale and highly collectable releases

Swedish cd promo cd in cardboard sleeve. A dvd is listed on the back but was never released with the promo version

Polish act Hermh fourth album Cold Blood Messiah shows the quality in music-writing one could detect on Edens Fire but so much better. The major change is the keyboard, since the songs are now based on guitar and flavoured with keyboards, not the other way around. The forty minutes of music here is delightful. Frantic blasting and technical riffing is mixed with bombastic choirs, spiced with subtle keyboard action and topped off with a chunky production. This is so much more complex than any of Hermhs earlier releases, with tons of different tempos and nuances. There are no moments of filler-riffs, as each is placed perfectly in accordance with the skilled drumming. Barts voice sounds much harsher and rawer then before, and this time he really lets lose his inner demons with growl-like moments and deep choirs. The tempo-variations are marvelous, the symphonies are terrific, the sound quality almost perfect and its all just bombastic-as-hell. When it comes to symphonic black metal then this could be the album of the year

Track listing:
1. Hairesis
2. Instrumentum Diaboli
3. Eyes Of The Blind Lamb
4. Lord Shall Be Revealed
5. I Bring You Fear
6. Sin Is The Law
7. Gnosis
8. Who Can Be Against Us
9. In My Flesh I See God