SETHERIAL - Hell Eternal CD
Twenty five years later, Hell Eternal is still the best fun you can have without actually watching the Armageddon with a cold beer in your hand. Since that fairytale event isn't very likely going to happen, and "Satan" is a pre-Christian word meaning basically "the one we don't like" and not a personal name of some imaginary bad guy, you're left with this. To my knowledge, no one has ever tried to do anything like what Setherial did here, or if they did, it was nothing memorable and fell apart after a few minutes. This one is a documented moment in history when someone decided to do the maximum in glorious, Satanic violence, and had the means to do it. No mercy, no romance, and if you're looking for mood, the mood is the Armageddon itself. As if it wasn't enough to throw in more riffs, fills, melodies and breakneck direction changes than other bands do in their whole careers, Setherial hammered the point home by using the word "Satan" about 33 times. I counted. And trust me, not for a second, never, does it sound like they were joking.