Release Date March 21st, 2026
Format CD
Genre Black Metal
Country Norway
A.H.P. started tearing through the Bergen underground back in 2011. Gulnar, the mastermind handling the instruments and programming, originally hails from Poland. It took ten long years following their debut, "Against Human Plague", to unleash this second full-length assault. The project operates totally outside the typical Norwegian black metal circle, opting for a colder, mechanical approach to extreme music.
"Alltid Imot Deg" delivers a massive wall of freezing violence. The guitars grind like rusted machinery, maintaining a steady, hypnotic assault on the skull. The programmed drumming operates with militaristic precision, giving the entire album an industrial Moonfog edge. Gulnar constructs a soundwall of pure freezing sickness. The audio assault is uncompromising, crushing weak eardrums instantly.
Four different vocalists spit poison across these tracks. Armagog, JRMR, and Onielar from Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult join Gulnar at the microphone. Every throat provides a different vocal sickness, narrating foul deeds and pure auditory violence. The shifts in vocal attacks keep the assault highly engaging, tearing through the ice-cold riffing with total malicious intent.
The songwriting maximizes the frigid atmosphere. The mechanical soundwall destroys everything in its path. It is a straight-up assault of freezing black metal that buries the listener in frost. The title track, "Alltid Imot Deg", ends the album with a massive dose of grim darkness, acting as a gigantic maw swallowing all the remaining light.
Ten years was a long wait for the metal underground. A.H.P. delivers what extreme music requires. Freezing riffs, vicious vocals, and mechanical hate. "Alltid Imot Deg" is a victorious return for Gulnar and co, and it’s the sound of a band digging deeper into its own madness coming back with something worth hearing.
Score: 8.0
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