Band:	Sadistik Forest
Album:	Morbid Majesties
Style:	Death metal, Thrash metal
Release date:	May 2018

01. Morbidly Majestic
02. Decades Of Torment Then Death
03. The Hour Of Dread
04. Destructive Art
05. Zero Progress
06. Monsters Of Death
07. The Maelstrom Opens
08. Bones Of A Giant

Finland. Forests. Death metal. Enter Sadistik Forest with Morbid Majesties.

This is the third full-length album of these eardrum annihilators, six long years after Death, Doom, Radiation. I need to say that this review is biased. It is impossible for me not to like a death metal album that is largely riff-oriented, has a HUGE guitar tone and the bass is high in the mix. And if you add Markus Makkonen's cavernous growls and banshee shrieks, the end result is very satisfying for me. The time Markus spent with Hooded Menace after the release of Death, Doom, Radiation must have been very fruitful for him because Morbid Majesties sounds so much better than Sadistik Forest's previous offerings on so many levels.

So why should you pay attention to this particular death metal release when there are so many others to check out? Well, as I already mentioned the riffs come in numbers beyond counting and they are catchy as hell. But that's not all; you get bone-crushing chugs combined with fast and aggressive battering in "Decades Of Torment Then Death" and "Zero Progress", meaty and dirty bass lines and gigantic groove in the "Hour Of Dread", ripping guitar solos in "Morbidly Majestic", borderline black metal chord progressions in "Destructive Art" and, finally, terrorizing and doom-impending atmosphere in the 9-minute closer, "Bones Of A Giant".

The above package of monstrous old-school death metal comes with thrashy wrapping paper and a black metal ribbon in less than 35 minutes of runtime, which is perfect if you have the attention-span of a 5-year-old, like I do. This also helps so that a couple of less memorable tracks don't stick around long enough to become annoying.

Sadistik Forest have put the seeds of Bolt Thrower, Death, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer and Sepultura in a hostile arctic womb that gave birth to Morbid Majesties; an ugly and intimidating death metal beast lurking in the forests of Finland, out to brutalize you in every way possible.

"We are the legion
Exiled from light
The final order
The dead of night?"