Here we have an amazing little split from Greece's Almighty Sathanas and Mexico's Sargatanas. Both play very different styles of black/death, but they both do a very efficient job. Sargatanas may be known to readers as fairly solid death metal band with a couple of albums and a split with the fantastic Morbosidad. Their style is old school death metal with a strong, evil, blackened presence. Almighty Sathanas, however, are more black metal with death metal vocals, and have only two splits under their belt.Almighty Sathanas gets the first two songs, totaling less than 5 minutes, but displaying potential to invoke Satan with a full length. Nothing too fast, and nothing too repetitious, the two songs are actually pretty well produced. Everything can be heard clearly, and that's not bad. Especially considering the simple riffs are still interesting and again, EVIL. They remind me slightly of 'A Blaze In The Northern Sky'...death metal riffs played black metal style. The vocals are a generic death growl like you'd hear from an old Swedish death metal record. They aren't reinventing anything, but this is some solid, mature sounding black metal from a very new band.
Sargatanas side of the split is much cleaner, much more intense. Clearly more based in death than black, but no less evil. Only one song at just over 5 minutes, but they have full lengths to quench that thirst for more. Starting with a good mid-pace before kicking into a thrash-esque riff out/headbang mid section. Hell, there's even a solo. Bravo! Heavy song, well written, great atmosphere.
Nothing unique, nothing worth phoning home about, but a good effort. Worth your time even if you just want to download it. It's evil enough to worship Satan to, so that has to matter, right?
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