Decades Of Devil Worship, by Akercocke

Decades Of Devil Worship

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Buzzario What a tremendous qualitative capture of what must have been an amazingly atmospheric live experience. Wish I could’ve been there. I hope they will tour again in the European mainland soon. It’s been since 2006 since I saw them live.

Trebör Zuleika is a belter!

bartol12 Bangers from start to finish, it sounds great too. What a show to capture and it's awesome it's finally had a release. Favorite track: The Ceremony Of Nine Angles (live).

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1.	Conjuration (live) 02:01	buy track
2.	Hell (live) 04:26	buy track
3.	Nadja (live) 02:56	buy track
4.	The Goat (live) 01:07	buy track
5.	Marguerite & Gretchen (live) 05:59	buy track
6.	Zuleika (live) 04:16	buy track
7.	Il Giardino di Monte Oliveto Maggiore (live) 04:21	buy track
8.	Justine (live) 03:39	buy track
9.	Of Menstrual Blood And Semen (live) 06:08	buy track
10.	A Skin For Dancing In (live) 07:04
11.	The Horns Of Baphomet (live) 07:25	buy track
12.	He Is Risen (live) 04:39	buy track
13.	The Ceremony Of Nine Angles (live) 10:00	buy track

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Highlighting over 25 years since the birth of the UK extreme metal greats, with a storming live satanic assault of classics from Akercocke’s early repertoire.

Throughout the years, Akercocke has become known for its savage and prodigious livework. And now, with a stunningly produced and meticulously delivered torrent of high-octane blackened death metal captured live in at the Underworld in London in 2007, Akercocke blast through a collection of tracks lifted from the classic debut, ‘Rape of the Bastard Nazarene’, and follow-up album ‘The Goat of Mendes’ for a night of pure satanic magic with ‘Decades of Devil Worship’, a hellish and eclectic journey through the ritualistic and the profane.

Towering above the vast majority of nefarious contemporary noisemakers, London’s Akercocke erupted across the consciousness of the UK metal scene in the late ‘90s, wielding a fiendishly inventive blend of death, black and progressive metal. Their distinctive, smartly-dressed demeanour and eloquent preoccupation with all things dark and Satanic marked them out both as ferociously individual artists and enlightened students of the pitch-black sonic code. Immediately embraced by the British faithful upon the release of debut album ‘Rape Of The Bastard Nazarene’, Akercocke spent the following decade leading the creative charge for their entire native scene.

Akercocke received widespread acclaim for follow-up album ‘The Goat of Mendes’ (Peaceville, 2001) and despite enjoying furious momentum over the following years, the release of fifth album ‘Antichrist’ in 2007 signalled the end of the first chapter of the Akercocke story, when the band retreated into the shadows and remained dormant for the best part of a decade until a triumphant return was marked with the stellar Peaceville return, ‘Renaissance in Extremis’, released in 2017.

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