Triumph Of Death are the Hellhammer tribute act put together by original Hellhammer members Tom Gabriel Warrior and Martin Eric Ain to allow them to perform Hellhammers notorious black metal catalogue live, separately from there work in Celtic Frost. These Swiss Black metal legends recruited musicians with enough heft to pull these songs off, so Jamie Lee Cussigh, Tim Iso Wey and Andre Matthieu joined Tom and became Triumph Of Death.
Sadly Martin Eric Ain died before this tour happened, these live recordings are taken from shows in Houston Texas, Munich Germany and Barroselas Portugal in 2023. Before Triumph Of Death began performing Hellhammers songs live they only existed as demos and a couple of singles and hadn't been performed live as a set, apart from the odd song Celtic Frost played back in the day.
The concert opens with The Third Of The Storms (Evoked Damnation) in a hail of satanic guitars, growled vocals with blast you to hell and back drums with some deep dark brutal bass.
Massacra is a tornado of brutality, that won't give up battering everything in sight.
Maniac fires the mind on your journey to hell, with hammer your face to the wall drumming, splattering intense guitars with the growled to the bowels of hell and back vocals.
Blood Insanity grinds to the core of all the insane battles in the name of blood lines, as they open up your veins with house of horror bass degradations, spitting venom deep into the caterwauling guitar flambeeing your brain, this will leave you feeling drained.
They introduce Decapitator like it's going to be a happy go lucky anthem, yeah right, this is thrash raging black metal, that wants to sever your head, as swiftly as those blast beats drill into your brain.
Crucifixion rages across the speakers like a Roman legion out of control desperate for blood and sacrifice, hard as nails riffing, ready to have blood dripping from the stigmata in no time at all.
Reaper is howling call for the Reaper to come and reap all he can over the distended guitars, battling with the bowel shaking bass, as Tom howls Reaper at us we all recoil in fear.
Horus Aggressor opens with a repeating drum pattern, that eventually lets rip as the guitars burn incandescently, as this marauds through another nation in need of the decimation the Aggressor brings.
Revelations Of Doom sounds exactly how a song called Revelations of Doom ought to sound, loud brutal and dark as can be, splenetic riff heavy guitars, blasting drums and Toms vocals from the edge of damnation.
Messiah has complex guitars rearing their ugly head to do battle with the demon drummer and Jamie Lee Cussigh's driven to despair bass, as the search for that messiah to save them all from the damnation that is living in Switzerland.
Visions Of Mortality has them dreaming of death and destruction over the brutal to the max wall of guitars, raging drums guaranteeing your ears hurt before they finish with you, flailing your flesh for the sheer pleasure of it.
The album closes with a monumental 13 minute plus version of Triumph Of Death that was Hellhammer's most notorious song, that will crush your brain to dust, as it slowly brutally rings the toll for death, after about 5 minutes or so the main riff finally kicks in, lightening things up, as it finally has a groove for them to just get even heavier too, finally sounding more like Black Sabbath than at any other point on the album.
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