I just can't say it in simpler words: SEPTICFLESH (as one word from now on) are back! One of the most well-known Greek bands is here with the new work, Communion, and hopefully SEPTICFLESH are here to stay.

What can anyone say about this band, that - with ROTTING CHRIST - are the most well-known bands (having Greece as base) worldwide? I don't think that I have to write down the whole bio of the band beside some basic information that it was formed back in 1990 and released the fisrt EP Temple Of Lost Race one year later. It was 1994 when their debut album Mystic Places Of Dawn hit the stores. During the next five years they released five albums. Their last one before the band's small break (I don't think the group ever split up in the back of their heads) was Sumerian Daemons in 2003. After that small break, just a year ago, they decided it was time to bring SEPTICFLESH back to light in order to bring us the dark once more.

As for the album itself? What can I say? You have to listen to it for yourselves. The production is in high standards as always in their last albums & the compositions are strong 'built'. The beauty of that album is that it is so unique, since this is the most experimental album, in my humble opinion, of SEPTICFLESH. Just listen to Lovecraft's Death or the brilliant Persepolis. Of course there are 'classic' SEPTICFLESH songs like Anubis and Sunlight Moonlight, where you can listen to the wonderful work Christos did with the melodies; they are a 'trademark' for the band. This time all the band members did participate to the compositions of the album, and maybe this is the thing that makes it so experimental. In some songs you will listen to clear vocals, something that they did in the past at the Revolution DNA album, and in Persepolis a narration in Greek that sounds really nice and adds to the atmosphere of the song. This album is one of the darkest, if not the darkest release of the band. As for the arrangements of the Czech Film Orchestra (80 musicians and a 12-members choir), Christos Antoniou did an incredible job. My only objection? The album lasts for only 38 minutes. But on the other hand, in just under 40 minutes, you can go a journey to the darkest places of the soul.

In a few days that the album is going to be released, every true fan of 'atmospheric' Black/Death metal and Metal fans in general will have to buy this CD. Hell is coming, just bow to darkness. SEPTICFLESH are back. Prepare yourselves and join the Communion.