Although their recent work is a sort of blistering black-death-grind, this early album by SadEx is clearly old-school black-death (somewhere in the same ballpark as earlier Celtic Frost with touches of some Sarcofago, maybe?). This is a little on the disappointing side here, with nothing like the crazed (but controlled) chaos that they have become known for. The songs "The Magus" and "Lupercalia" do resemble old-school black metal, and are actually pretty interesting, but most of the other songs have a kind of "thrash" quality to them--a la early Slayer. This is not bad metal, just a little underwhelming.
