The Devil rides out once more as The Antichrist Imperium follow up their 2015 debut with this second volume of unrelenting Satan worship. Of all the members of the sprawling Akercocke family tree, The Antichrist Imperium’s death metal sticks closest to the parent band’s legacy of progressive, debauched, blast-furnace goat homage.
And for the first three tracks of Volume II: Every Tongue Shall Praise Satan, blast-furnace goat homage is exactly what you get. A bit of diminishing returns starts to creep in here but once the album settles into a more adventurous mode with the sumptous Liturgy Of The Iconoclast/Blood Sacrifice it never looks back. Golgothan Heiros Gamos is occult ecstasy and Sermon Of Small Faith is an epic, joyous closer. Top marks to guitarist Matt Wilcock and drummer David Gray for whirling like dervishes throughout and the twin vocalists Sam Bean and Sam Loynes conjure up an increasingly captivating vocal chemistry.
It’s great stuff so fans of blasphemous and seductive evil metal should pee on a pentagram, leave it for three days, and pray for a third outing. Everyone else? Salt and mercury… effective against the dark forces.
HEAVY METAL OVERLOAD 
After hearing this song, I am now preparing the altar in my backyard to sacrifice 3 chickens, 2 goats and a virgin to the dark lord.
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Find a virgin goat and save yourself some time and bother.
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Great idea! LMAO!
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I would enjoy seeing a visual of that family tree!
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I’m sure it would be very evil. Like the one in Poltergeist.
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You know, I had this image in my head that the Ackercocke keyboardist was really just this gentleman in a tweed jacket, but this is just as insane!
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I think his wardrobe is quite vast and varied.
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IT’s better than mine, that’s for sure, and I look like a knob when I try to do my beard like that.
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Creating a corner in the basement to pray for three, four, and five!
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Steady on, that’s a lot of pee. At least do it outside.
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Haha I am undaunted!
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Do you think that nun has done it with the goat demon? 🐐🐐😀
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Who hasn’t?
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Exactly, but I only did it when I was on a bit of a drought. Did you like my goat demon emoji by the way?
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Genuinely terrifying!
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Ha! I’ve heard this one! More than once, too… I actually quite liked it. What you make of them apples?
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I remember you saying you were going to check it out. Good on ye.
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