https://thronerecords.bandcamp.com/album/nihl-2
— METAL ARCHIVES —
100%
“Now, this is some serious shit to speak about.
Altarage are as real as they get, though there’s no way to decipher who
in the hell they are. They could be an entirely new band in the
excellent Spaniard extreme scene. Either way, they could be some kind of
supergroup we don’t have the way to know about as well.”
— BLACK METAL REVIEWS —
666 / 666
“A truly astonishing album with some of the
punchiest, most addictive drumming to ever adorn a Black / Death Metal
recording and a lot, lot more besides. Searing guitars, anguished
otherworldly hollers, soul-destroying bass. The crushing atmosphere
lives and breathes, pouring from the speakers like a tsunami of terror.
And we all love terror. Let it rain upon you.”
— CVLT NATION —
Best Death Metal album 2016
“What Altarage has done is take death metal to a
horrendously cacophonous new height. Rich guitar tones, echoing drums,
bass chugs for the sanest of people to lose their minds to, grinding
vocals, and symphonic blasts of refined disfigurement and ruination make
me want a count of how many strings, sticks, and cough drops this band
had to replace and/or use to tap into this vein of death metal. It’s as
raging and downright demonic as the banshee-esque being on the cover,
calling you to fall into the perception of death, become a wraith of
self-doubt, and become a creature of Nihl.”