Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath (2014)

   Unaussprechlichen Kulten's third full-length album was kind of a new milestone in the band's discography. They showed up as a strongly blasphemous, Lovecraft influenced death metal band relying on massive, intense brutality, and by "Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath" their music became more complex and diverse.
   From this album temporary slow-downs were frequently involved, that created enjoyable contrast with the intense themes. The sound quality also improved a lot and this proved to be a pretty advantageous step for the more complex song compositions. This complexity on the side of the tone of Joseph Curwen's deep growling vocal style strongly reminds to Broken Hope. Interestingly this analogy wasn't so evident at all previously. This might demonstrate well, how seemingly small changes could have quite determining effects in extreme underground music. The switch from raw brutality to greatly composed brutality didn't push their music to technical death metal fields, though it's definitely more technical than how it usually used to be. Compared to "People of the Monolith" when a a band could be heard that's probably still in some path finding state, the third album was made by an experienced band who knew exactly what they wanted and how. Ricardo Stöhwing's characteristic drumming style is also mentionable, that became an easily identifiable and indistinguishable feature of Unaussprechlichen Kulten. 
   An excellent masterpiece, strongly recommended for the fans of death metal!