THE BEAST

Today,  Helter Skelter Productions  (distributed & marketed by  Regain Records ) sets January 20th, 2021 as the international release date for  Satanize 's highly anticipated sixth album,  Baphomet Altar Worship , on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Since 2001, Portugal’s  Satanize  have been prolifically pursuing their own vision of all-caps BLACK METAL. Of that prolific canon, they’ve released five full-lengths and more than twice as many EPs and splits. During that time, the longstanding duo of Reverend of Diabolical Services and Sinister Sorcery (barbaric skullhammers & poisonous hate commands) and Reverend of the Hell Legions and Macabre Tyranny (bestial strings of holocaust & low pulse desecration) have not so much “evolved” as literally  devolved , locating and then desecrating the most primal expression of blackest metal they can.

To that, whereas so many of their Portuguese contemporaries live or die on withering rawness, the contemporary  Satanize  terrorize the underground with a righteously barbaric assault on the senses. Witness their latest  Baphomet Altar Worship . Truly titled,  Baphomet Altar Worship  is an iron-fisted, close-minded, and unapologetically ignorant display of feral ‘n’ fiery bestiality.  Pounding and pulsing, overwhelming in their gibbering intensity,  Satanize  utterly PUNISH the listener with one mesmerizing-yet-malicious hymn after another; sonic slaughter abounds at every seemingly chaotic, careening turn. And yet, note the word “seemingly,” for however jagged and jarring their bestial blackgrind may be,  Satanize  wield their physicality with an almost martial strictness – one could even liken it “Zen” – and a strangely tuneful “catchiness” arises. But, escape never an option: only submission. And, before you know it, the 29 minutes of  Baphomet Altar Worship  are over and you’re begging the duo for more, more, MORE. Truly,  Satanize  are the ultimate in paradigmatic bestial black metal.

Fittingly completed by cover artwork courtesy of longtime comrade Sickness666,  Satanize  herald the impending Apocalypse with  Baphomet Altar Worship !

The first sign of that Apocalypse can be found with a brand-new lyric video for the title track "Baphomet Altar Worship"  HERE  at  Regain Records ' official YouTube channel. Preorder info to be announced shortly, but more info can be found at  Regain 's Bandcamp  HERE  or  Shadow Records ' webstore  HERE . Aforementioned cover artwork and tracklisting are as follows: