��� Recently stumbled across this band's belligerent satanic stomp after picking up the latest Ghost Kommando Ep that came out on the same label. Always on the lookout for the ugliest, most barbaric bands straddling the line between black metal and punk rock, I checked 'em out after seeing them getting compared to Facta Loquuntur-era Absurd and primitive German black metal outfit Priestermord, and these guys definitely delivered that same kind of vicious filth. In fact, D�monenblut's simplistic blackened stomp swings even more into the realm of lunkheaded punk rock than a lot of bands of this ilk, sharing the same predilection for old-school Oi! and RAC as those creeps in Absurd.

��� Released back in 2009, Das Tor zur H�lle appears to be the only album that these German black metallers have belted out thus far, and the primitive boneheaded racket that they deliver on this disc is definitely a total throwback (or callback, as that opening song "Werwolf" suggests) to the sort of evil blackened punk that Absurd championed back before they morphed into their later pagan metal stuff. The songs rumble out rude and raw four-chord demonic assaults that mix that Oi! influence with the most stripped-down of mid-tempo black metal, the sound somewhere in between the punky thrash of classic Venom and the most violent strains of anthemic pub punk. Despite the overt RAC influence on their music, these guys don't seem to align themselves with NS black metal in any way, for what that's worth. From looking at their imagery and lyrics (at least, what I can discern of them), tracks like "Satans Hofgesind", "Satans Sohn", and "Satans Weib" appear to primarily involve, unsurprisingly, devil-worship and acts of Satanic lust. The usual stuff, of course, but musically this album is a fucking stomper, most of the songs pounding out grim and catchy blasts of four-chord devilry, with the occasional dismal dirge thrown in for miserable effect. They throw in a Germanic cover of the Venom classic "In League With Satan" at the end, too. Fans of the sort of punk-fueled black metal regression that Legion Blotan frequently champions should especially check out Das Tor zur H�lle , as D�monenblut's vulgar necro-punk oozes with both sloppy Shaggsian abandon and violent adolescent cult angst that's pretty goddamn contagious.