Reviews list for Ammit - Hammer of Darkness (2005)

Chile is a country whose metal output gets talked about in hushed tones of almost obligatory praise.  The primitive sound of Ammit certainly earns kvlt points with its unrelenting and raw sounding attack on the senses.  Although by no means doing anything new there's accolades aplenty here just for the attitude alone.  With antediluvian production values and ghastly simplistic instrumentation Hammer of Darkness certainly sets it's stall out from the off with the ragged and chaotic opening of Pure Infernal Fire.  This be music strangers to the light listen to, make no mistake about it.

Darkness withstanding, Hammer of Darkness does come off at times as an almost paradoxical look at BM/thrash metal.  Track two,  Power means Death Power has a laughable repetition of the same lyric over and over, albeit to a more than satisfying bestial soundtrack of buzzsaw riffs and clattering percussion.  The title track also suffers from making me smile more than it does throw horns or gurn ridiculous faces too.

When not giving me cause for slight comedic amusement, Ammit are actually more than successful in achieving what they set out to do which is be more prehistoric sounding than Aura Noir but they are just victim to their own hilarity.  Song titles like Fast As A Shark along with the aforementioned Power Means Death Power are ridiculous but shouldn't detract entirely from what is at the end of the day perfectly competent blackened thrash.