Description

Legitimate contenders to the claim of “world’s most insane extreme metal band,” Australia’s Sadistik Exekution formed in the mid-’80s and remained steadfastly committed to playing the fastest, most violently over-the-top music they could throughout their career. In some ways old-school and in others nearly avant-garde, their style mixed together aspects of black, thrash, death, and doom metal, often played at incredibly fast speeds, while at others rendered at a nearly dirge-like crawl. Their debut The Magus is historically a pretty important album, considering some of the material on this EP was written as early as 1986. All of the elements the band would expand later on in their career are here, the frantic riffing style, the solos, the blasting, and the general over the top approach to the music, but at this point the band hadn’t quite reached the level of insanity that they would on later releases. Rok’s vocals on here aren’t nearly as insane as they would be on We Are Death, Fukk You, nor are there and ridiculously fast bass solo breaks. But that doesn’t detract at all from the quality of the music. In fact, that probably makes it the most unique album in the band’s discography, as it has a much more old school feel (think Sarcofago’s INRI, but a lot filthier sounding with most riffs and blasting). The noise even makes an appearance here in the form of I’ll Kill You, You Bastard (one of the best song titles ever), as well as a handful of unlisted tracks. This one is definitely for the fans of dirty old sounding black insanity like Beherit, Sextrash, and Sarcofago.

Track listing:
1. Transneobathasaurikaldelusionsoftheunknown
2. Cautness Darling Blood
3. The Magus
4. Agonizing The Dead
5. Sadistikly Executed
6. Lupercalia
7. Possessed Haemorrhage
8. I´ll Kill You, You Bastard