Usurper - Skeletal Season

The best album Celtic Frost never wrote (?) this was a highlight of 99`, a pretty barren year for quality metal. The title track is an absolute killer, and though long-ish and too derivative of Tom Warrior & co at times (ungh.....heyyyy!), (nearly) every other song crushes on this release, with it`s shrieking vocals, colossal riffs and sinister lyrics.

Credit once again to Terrorizer magazine for turning me onto this (largely unheralded) gem; my next stop = their debut.

7/10