This is a bit older release, but no matter, never too late for good music, eh? Odium Records will be releasing this beauty on vinyl and digipack cd soon, so what better time to have a listen. This is a seven song split release of two black metal bands, namely Black Altar from Poland and Kirkebrann from Norway.

Polish black metal veterans Black Altar, led by founder Shadow offer two songs and an instrumental outro, more dark ambient styled short outro. For the recording of this material by Black Altar, there were some really prominent guests like Mauser(ex Vader), Lars Broddesson (Funeral Mist, ex Marduk) and Alexandros(Macabre Omen). The songs by Black Altar on this record are fast, brutal and full of blast beats, more nineties style of old school black metal and I love the atmosphere of aggression and melancholy they create with awesome melodies provided between carefully constructed merciless onslaught.

Kirkebrann are hailing from Norway and they represent a newer tide of black metal bands from that country, who still hold the black flame of true Norwegian black metal band burning proudly, with bands like 1349, Tsjuder, Urgehal coming to mind while listening to the music of Kirkebrann, but besides that, they still sound a lot like that old first wave of Norse black metal, from the legendary early first half of the nineties. Their for songs on this record are a lesson in raw, yet at times melodic black metal sung in Norwegian language. This is a great split record. Odium Records do such a fine job with all their roster and released opuses.

https://odiumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/black-altar-kirkebrann-deus-inversus