From the deepest darkness of Paris comes Vorkreist, offering their impious satanic rites in form of their debut album entitled Sabbathical Flesh Possession. That should be promising. They blend the brutal and savage death metal of bands like Diabolic, Angel Corpse and Morbid Angel, with the aggressive and holocaustic black metal of the early works of Impaled Nazarene, Immortal and Bestial Warlust. Well, this should be one of the best cd’s this year if it was up to Vorkreist’s label Xtreemmusic.

Although this cd is without a doubt extreme, grim, harsh and all those terms used for this kind of bands, I think it lacks the atmosphere aforementioned bands make so great.

Big problem is the fact that the production is not so good. Too much bass, which makes the sound messy at times. But despite this fact, there is actually a lot of good riffing going on, on songs like “Tread On The Cross”, “Infernal Communion” and “Dawn Of Terror”. I don’t think this cd will have the same impact as Altars Of Madness, or Battles In The North, but altogether Vorkreist deliver us a cd they can be proud of. Maybe next time a better production should bring them further.