ALTAR OF PLAGUES – TEETHED GLORY AND INJURY (Profound Lore Records)

Even if it hardly represents a dramatic departure, I really do not like the direction Altar Of Plagues’ music has taken on their third full-length, ‘Teethed Glory And Injury’. Here is a band I’ve been championing for a long time – see my review of ‘Mammal’ – but one whose Black Metal quotient has always been dubious / debatable, to say the least.

On this album, my compatriots have remorselessly severed any tenuous link they may have previously had with Black Metal – for the sake of maturity, I imagine – and delivered something altogether different. Something that I can’t even be bothered to explain or describe because I couldn’t give a damn about the sort of pretentiousness found on ‘Teethed Glory And Injury’; Altar Of Plagues is now irrelevant to me and to this website

Evilometer: 000/666