CRUCIFIER “Say your prayers” MCD/MLP 2022 (Hell yeah ! At last some new Crucifier material four years after the excellent “Thy Sulfur Throne on High” ; and it’s still Heavy, aggressive - yet sufficiently melodic - and blasphemously inspired as you can expect it. Not to mention the killer guitar solos, an awesome cover of legendary Carnivore, and of course, the unmistakable drumming & vocals of Cazz ‘The Black Lourde of Crucifixion’ Grant himself. Hail Black/Death Metal Underground ! Hail Crucifier !)
1. My Soul to Take 2. Foul Deeds Will Rise 3. Into Ash 4. Chime of the Goat's Head Bell 5. Jesus Hitler (Carnivore cover)
“One of the longest-running entities in the American underground, CRUCIFIER was formed in 1990 by vocalist/drummer Cazz Grant. While myriad lineups would come and go - and the band's eventual debut album, ‘Stronger Than Passing Time’, wouldn't be released until 2003 - CRUCIFIER have kept consistent to their blasphemous, blackened Death Metal style steeped in the truly ancient and most underground ways. Now, four years after their last recording (the full-length ‘Thy Sulfur Throne on High’), CRUCIFIER return to ruin everyone's day with a five-song/26-minute mini-album titled ‘Say Your Prayers’. Primal but not primitive, weird and wandering but fully locked-in and never forgetting the METAL aspect, the quartet create a ghastly, grimy experience here, with Grant's vocals in particular stunning in their diabolic delirium. Furthering that delirium are the mind-mangled leads by Spencer "Madman" Murphy, also aided by Grant, altogether proving that CRUCIFIER's eldritch sound is eternal. Concluded by a Carnivore cover, CRUCIFIER never stop the madness, so Say Your Prayers !” (Iron Bonehead)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGBGB9DcS-k