Excuse me while I get back on the chair I just fell off of after listening to this album. If you don't know who Allfader is... then get to know them. They are a death/black metal band from Norway (nuff said right?), and are for anyone that likes extreme hyperblasting constant monster riffage and chords. After three years, Allfader finally released their second full length album "Black Blood Flux". Moving forward from the thrilling debut "At Least We Die Together" (2008), the band has taken their sound and revamped it, bringing a whole new fresh level of brutality and blackened death to "Black Blood Flux" and not a moment too soon. For those that judged their last album by the cover artwork (a guy and girl holding 9mm's to each other’s necks while kissing) there is no mistaking what awaits you looking at "Black Blood Flux" (a pile of dead decaying slaughtered bodies with an ominous brown red sky in the background). Absolute total armageddon and chaos.

Whether it be the intense opening of the catchy first track ‘Harbingers of Night’ (I didn’t see the fretless bass solo coming and doubt you will either), or the galloping Amon Amarth like chorus and lyrics of the second track ‘Draconian Command’ (which contains an epic solo from guest guitarist Tony Tunheim from Enslavement of Beauty), the music is quality and delivers. The galloping drums and riffs in ‘Draconian Command’ calls upon the image of a black horse and cloaked figure charging into battle and I could see it def being a hit live. Vocalist and Gutairist John Erik Anderson reminds me of Tomas Lindberg from At the Gates at his prime throughout the entire album (see track ‘Son of Nore’ for a good example which again the band does its best Amon Amarth impression with a chorus that could be straight from "Vs The World"). ‘In Death We Trust’ opens up with full on black metal passage and blast beats before going off into a headbanging midsection that if by any chance these Norwegians came to the US this would bring on a one crazy fucking mosh pit.

Now the album is not complete brutality all the way through (which is good), the slow grove filled track ‘Titans March’ has a somewhat sludgey doom feel at times but still good. The anarchy commences with ‘Torn From Flesh’ which indeed does just that with pounding snare intro and more intense riffage. The last two songs (which are part 1 and 2 of the title track) are in my opinion the most well written of the record. Part 1 brings back an even more groovy doom riff with John speaking out the lyrics in low speaking voice. Part 2, the skies open up and all hell breaks loose in God Dethroned like fashion with John growling the lyrics from the previous part. The killer chorus makes the song with its pure black metal tremelo picking done in textbook like fashion. Before the song ends the groovy doom riff returns to my surprise but this time with double bass drums in action.

Quite simply Allfader exemplify what true melodic blackend death should sound like and “Black Blood Flux” at the end of the year should be in any death metal fans Top Albums List for 2011.