Tracklist: 1. Intro 2. Blasted Death 3. Black Adoration 4. Jackal Head 5. Ancient Returns 6. A Witch Shall Be Born (Daughter Of Darkness) 7. Hades Son 8. Hideous Obscure 9. Occult Burial |
Every aspect of Hideous Obscure screams the most obscure and fucking EVIL elements of mid ’80s metal: from the band’s logo on down to the cover art and the album’s song titles, Occult Burial “walk the talk” with a scuzzy, sepulchral sort of speed metal that could’ve hailed from Germany, Brazil, or their home of Canada some 30+ years ago. Furthering that authenticity is their alignment as a power-trio, much in the way that legendary forebears Sodom and Destruction did it in the early days – and even going so far as to sartorially sport the obligatory “Tom Angelripper bowel cut.” With a mood-setting intro and then on to eight blasts of black-as-pitch HEAVY METAL, the evil invaders of Occult Burial possess eardrums and corrupt souls into the ways that are Hideous Obscure…