The long-awaited 4th full-length by this Finnish one-man band. Prolific purveyors of “Bestial Black Metal Filth” since the early 00´s -and, it must be said, years before the term “bestial” entered the underground vernacular- Anal Blasphemy has been defiling eardrums and spoiling souls across a steady stream of splits and demos, and of course three full-length albums. Mainman Molestor Kadotus is likewise one of the busiest men in Finnish Black Metal, having run the label Hammer of Hate for many years and contributing to a slew of hordes, some even secret. But at one point in recent years, ANAL BLASPHEMY was put to rest while he started a new project monikered Blasphemous Devotion. While that band only released on demo, the seeds of perversion were replanted and Molestor Kadotus was reinvigorated: Anal Blasphemy would be reborn. And indeed it is with “Western decadence”. In many ways, “Western decadence” is characteristic, quintessential Anal Blasphemy: unhinged, untamed, morbid, murky, doomed, disgusting, primordial… Primitive. It´s a sound both obedient to and defiant of Black Metal´s ugliest, most underground-entrenched traditions. “Western decadence” is a new start for the band, or at least a very new chapter. The shambling shock and awe of early albums has given way to a moodier and more considered Anal Blasphemy, the roots of which began to show on the relatively more varied “Perversions of Satan”. Here on “Western decadence”, Molestor Kadotus creates a succinct song-cycle whereby pulsing, hypnotic filth gives way to messy, melancholic laments, from headbanging almost-anthems to mulching ambient soundcapes, and often with the haunting organic textures he´s utilized in Musta Kappeli. And fitting for the band´s grandest statement yet, “Western decadence” is the first Anal Blasphemy album to be fully recorded in a professional studio. Witness the fall of the West and feel deep devotion to the Devil: this is Western Decadence.