Most of the metal that comes from South America is quite impressive. Columbia’s HORNCROWNED is no exception to the rule. Spawned in 2002 and leaving a path of unholy desecrating black metal tunes in their wake ever since. Casus Belli Antichristianus is their third full length release.

If you were to actually play this album without knowing anything about HORNCROWNED you would not know they are from South America. Their style of black metal gives hints to influences of Marduk and sometimes Dark Funeral. When it comes to the category of speed HORNCROWNED delivers, each song contains blast beat assaults from beginning to end. The guitars are full of plenty aggressively fast tremolo picking and turned up in the mix, in fact, sounding like possessed demons on speed. The vocals of Demongoat are scream growled reminding me quite of Marduk. The lyrics are intelligently evil, within each song lay the Satanic undertones that overtly rise up and conquer the song. The more I listen to Casus Belli Antichristianus the more taken I am by this album. At first listen I wasn’t all that impressed, but it’s the type of album you must listen to many times to fully appreciate it. After each listen you tend to catch things that you didn’t hear the first time. That is how you know you have made an album with impact. HORNCROWNED is definitely worth checking out if you are into fast and aggressive Satanic Black Metal with war overtones. I am impressed and I hear HORNCROWNED have recently released a few splits since this album was released.