Band: Havohej
Title: Kembatinan Premaster
Label: Hells Headbangers Records
Distribution: /
Release date: 31/07/2010
Review: CD

The original release of this second full length, sixteen years after the debut Dethrone The Son Of God, was last year. Never mind, never too late in such a release’s case!

With Kembatinan Premaster, this US-based project brings the ultimate purification of Satanic madness. It can’t be considered the Abruptum way, nor Beherit/ Blasphemy alike, or industrialised à la Black Sheep or Blasphemophager, nor the Ambient-injected form in the vein of, let’s say, Organium or Alpha Drone. Havohej have an own approach, dry and raw, with a somewhat primitive production and utter-freezing grimness. The album seems to lack of any form of professionalism, yet at the same time this is an advantage not many projects do have. Don’t ask me why, yet in Havohej’s case it doesn’t bother (me) at all.

Especially the atmosphere is oh so wonderful. It is painful, misanthropic, sadistic, blaspheme and barbaric, and therefore beyond imagination. Kembatinan Premaster isn’t the most accessible recording since would-be virgin Mary gave birth to Jahweh’s would-be messiah, yet it must be one of the most uncomfortable ones ever and that is something every anti-human must appreciate, isn’t it?

84/100

Ivan Tibos.