Truly menacing and flesh-hungry death metal is something that we’re constantly on the cusp of getting on a daily basis from all sorts of underground acts doing their best to try and bring that concept to life through their brutal music, but only a select few are able to summon it properly. It takes something exceptional to bring such raw power in such a form, and Kommando Baphomet more than meets those requirements. This is some of the evilest death metal that I’ve heard for some time, and you can feel in it every single second.

Right off the bat, it’s with the cover art that you already get the sense that Kommando Baphomet is going for something beyond menacing with this effort in a way that so many others try to accomplish time after time with not many succeeding the right ways. When it comes to “Under the Deathsign”, however, it becomes very clear very quickly that this act is the real deal and not to be taken lightly as every single one of these eight tracks are not to be meddled with as this Portuguese act only deals in fire and blood. The assaults come in waves and lulls between ferocious riffage, haunting interludes that make you wary as to what is coming next, and everything else in between as “Under the Deathsign” is constantly making you unrested as it continuously wears you down to the point that you’ve no choice but to bend to its will and, ultimately, serve under its darkness. Kommando Baphomet really knew how to balance everything damn near perfectly as it’s throughout every piece that you rarely become uninterested in what’s going on with it all being quite gripping to listen to in every capacity, and “Under the Deathsign” is nothing if not a captivating work in all of its evil machinations. It’s a work the likes of which many of us are constantly looking for day after day, month after month, year after year, but it’s only on rare occasion do we get something as well executed in all of its madness as what Kommando Baphomet has accomplished here.

This is one of those works that absolutely catered to the occult soul in a way that is downright ferocious in spirit and blinding in a physical form, and it should go without saying that Kommando Baphomet hit every possible nail on the head when crafting this evil album. “Under the Deathsign” is almost destined to become a work that many people who thrive in the occult will flock towards the moment that they understand what this work is capable of, and I wouldn’t be shocked to see it gain the band a dedicated following over time.

LISTEN to “Under the Deathsign” on Bandcamp here.