You have to look beyond the terrible album cover to discover a loyal example of crude yet extremely rhythmic music flowing through “The Art of Holocaust”; simple lyrics that stick to your skin as the seconds become minutes and the songs grow in musicianship and creativity, maybe not the usual “progg” creativity but definitely a fresh way to bring catchy riffs over and over without transforming the album into something you can easily relate to what the main stream metal world has to offer.

The “beauty” of the album is the capacity of the guitars to bring that satanic dirty sound, and at the same time plague the songs with very melodic tunes that never fail to elevate the importance of the chorus, making them more memorable and permanent in your head.

Belzec sounds stronger than early Darkthrone and knows how to include hooks and melodies in order to keep the songs interesting; Landru Rophocale’s vocals are adequate and contribute by keeping the album dirty, dark and aggressive at all times, nothing actually surprising by his interpretation, but the way he faces each song fits the whole raw black atmosphere to propagate.

The recording as it is accustom, is dirty and crude, the interesting thing is how the drums go from sounding like plastic empty bottles to strong solid drums; a criticism that I have for this guys is the same one I have for every band that uses pieces of audio from a movie or a TV show, DO NOT put better sounding recordings into an obviously raw under produced material it just makes the album sound amateur.