Tyrant’s Return reviewed on Blood Of The Ancient

Blood Of The Ancient

MEPHISTO – Tyrant’s Return – Demo tape

I cannot tell you anything about the layout of this tape as I only got a copy of it – however, the cover of the `Too Loud For The Hell` tape was very great…! On `Tyrant`s Return` I`m able to check out the first proper recorded MEPHISTO songs, and they`re also in that straight and very simply played vein like the above reviewed rehearsal was. Hm, but it`s some kind of really confusing situation right now: On the one hand it`s good to listen to these songs in a clearer way, but sometimes I`m missing the raw approach of the rehearsal room recordings… However, MEPHISTO manage to execute truly spiteful, misanthropic tunes of extreme bizarreness. The Italians are by no way a plain HELLHAMMER-rip-off, the group manages to create an own way of interpreting their malevolent hate tirades. MEPHISTO walk upon a promising path, but after a certain while their music seems to get a bit monotonous: If the Italians could change this weak point, we should be prepared for some real masterpiece releases in future…!

Christian Wachter