Conqueror - Hammer of Antichrist - History of Annihilation (2003)

    For those who missed Blasphemy, the appearence of Conqueror could have been satisfying. The band was formed by their guitarist Ryan Förster and James Read, and that's already enough to guarantee the expected quality.
    Anyway this band wasn't a long living project and so active neither. "Hammer of the Antichrist" was a compilation that summarized their discography including their one and only full-lenght album and their demo releases. So it's a nice lenght for long term enjoyment. The same insane feeling returned in their music like in Blasphemy a decade earlier. The difference is that Conqueror sounds even more intense and the vocal style is closer to ordinary black metal. Just like the most exaggerated direction of black/death, Conqueror's music completely lacked atmosphere, melancholy, melodies and any aesthetical features. It's raw, compromise-less noise about war, apocalypse, satanism and hatred mostly in rehearsal quality. And like usually in this style, the primitive sound puts the raw brutality in main focus, that is exactly why this style could be preferred. Strongly recommended for he fans of blasphemous musickness.