Tyrant’s Return reviewed on Hellpike zine

Hellpike zine

Mephisto – Tyrant’s Return (Satanic Supremacy Distro)

The band-name isn’t something new, immediately I feel reminded to an old German band (same-titled debut album in 1988 on cultish Wishbone Rec., I like that album with this strange & a bit „warm“ vocals, the German spoken intro and titles like „In Dubio contra Reum“, hehe).
This Mephisto from Italy is also sounding like an eighties band, but not like a Power/Heavy Metal band (as the German one used to be) but more with the roots of Venom and Hellhammer!
The songs are mid-tempo, sometimes fast and chaotic, too! The sound is good and the songs are mostly well-composed! Voice is a more evil version of Tom Warrior, expect also some urghs and arghs!! The xeroxed booklet tries to fool us with the sentence that „…Tyrant’s Return was recorded somewhere in the ´80s…“ and makes a little negative impression! Esp. when you can read in their bio that this band was created in summer 2003! Can’t understand such used lines!!
The 5 song demo-tape is finished too fast, it’s a bit short! But it’s no problem to listen to it again and again! The tape is limited on 133 copies, you better should move your ass pretty fast.