Description
Recorded between April 2021 and September 2024.
“New album, completely performed and recorded/mixed by Werwolf, created in total isolation between 2021 and 2024. Exultation of Cruelty brings forth a wintry breath reminding of the rising Black Metal underground of the early 2000s, and the original barbaric strength of Satanic Warmaster when “Finnish Black Metal” bullshit of today didn’t exist.
Compact disk comes with a bonus disk featuring alternative versions of the album tracks with Cryptic Winter (Judas Iscariot etc.) on drums along with unreleased material.”
Simply put: great! Nothing new, but extremely well-crafted and executed. Satanic Warmaster’s new album Exultation of Cruelty is, for lack of better words, a back-to-form album – raw and pure, yet still melodic in the true SW way. An easy choice for This Week’s Pick. No surprises, no compromises—just Black Metal in its purest form. Perhaps their best work since Carelian Satanic Madness?
– T / Sacrifire Productions
[This Week’s Pick #6/2025]