Description

Satarial have been one of the most talked about acts in the Russian metal scene for more than twenty years, including their alleged foundation in 1989 as Ad Maiorum Satan Glorium, before their official debut in 1993 as Satarial. At that time, the band played a pagan-oriented take on folk/black metal, and their first albums were willingly and recklessly blasphemous (that somewhat reminded me of Death SS through their theatrical approach) put their name on the map of the then extremely young Eastern European scene. After their cyber/industrial records the band went quite and there were more talk about their controversial performances than about the music itself. But in the summer of 2014 the band returned with Lunar Cross and the band also returned to black metal without losing their electronic past. The album is a pretty solid release that Satarial’s long-time fans will probably enjoy, perhaps especially those that didn’t particularly appreciate their cybernetic period. Here Satarial have managed to find a new path where they could put together all of their different styles. Industrial black metal fans or fans who just love anything controversial check this out.

Track list:
1. Nerone
2. Horned One
3. If Somebody Die
4. Baptized By Fire And Sword
5. Witches Night
6. Eternity
7. Flower Of Datura
8. Moon And Fire
9. Spell Of Formation
10. Queen Of Hell / Baptized By Fire And Sword-Russian version