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"Ultra Black Metal" contains the band's second and third full-length demos, "Zombie" from '90 and "Skeletor" from '91. Now, if you found your way to this review I'm guessing you're not entirely unfamiliar with late 80's/early 90's East-Euro Black Thrash-sound. It's stale, crude & awkward, just the way we want it, although the "Zombie" recordings may lean a tad too much in the crude direction. It's hard to pick any particular standout moments, but thanks to the originality of those insane, oversimplistic choruses, the demo work nicely as a whole. The title track bears a haunting similarity to the DEATH SS song with the same name, although not in a rip-off kind of way. Song by song we speed up to Thrash-pace and things would have become a bit tedious if it weren't for the immensely cool vocals. You simply cannot fail with Czech vocals in Metal! The "Skeletor"-session is where things get more interesting. The band is slowly moving upwards towards the songwriting class the of the outstanding 7" A-side in songs like "Destrutce Mozku", "Král Kanybal" (tango-beats!) and the pounding, must-hear "Excsorszit", a worthy competitor to the unholiest of ROOT-compositions.


There be studded leather, there be skulls, there be inverted crosses aplenty and TUDOR are more than worthy of these beastly medals. They may not have been the new old MASTER'S HAMMER, but the infernal noise engraved on these disks should be infernal enough for any and all jaded kult-metal fans. If it just sounds like poorly executed zero-budget Thrash sung in weird language to you, you were wrong to leave your comfy, western middle-class condo in the first place. This polluted concrete ghetto is not big enough for me, TUDOR and you.