VANMAKT - VREDSKAPTA MÖRKERSAGOR – PULVERISED  
Past an enigmatic intro track, Sweden’s Vanmakt is a blazing blasting bursting black metal band with all the viciousness of a razorback smelling blood. The quintet delivers in the extremeness department with surprising efficiency and tightness. The riffs are solid and the blasting speeds both rhythmic and disharmonic thus adding to the variety and staying power of the vehemently anti-Christian tirade. What astonishes one is the band’s proficiency given the group’s age, which at this stage stands at less than two years old. If the band’s biography holds true the album has been recorded a mere year following the group’s formation. It is either talent or a gift from Satan. Musically, the band stands somewhere between War and early Hypocrisy with vocalist Gorgoth coming across as a kin of All from War given how his screamed violence is nonetheless partly comprehensible. The reliable production also lends a favourable hand to the band which proves the group did not need James Murphy’s mastering services after all, which was something they had originally planned.
The group slows down from time to time and even introduces the odd melody as on the album’s dying moments, but this disc is certainly not for the faint-of-heart. – Ali “The Metallian”