A Bestial Masterpiece - "Scars of Supremacy" Review (97%)

Phantom has built its career on mocking the conventions of extreme metal.

So when so see an album titled Scars of Supremacy with what appears to be a bright and colorful sunrise as the album cover, you are all the more cautious than if you were to see cadavers and skulls (as on Divine Necromancy) or abstract lightning amongst a darkened mist (as on Eidolon).

And you are right to be cautious, because Scars of Supremacy is perhaps the most raw black metal album ever produced.

You will shit yourself, hard, while listening to this diabolical masterpiece.

Sure, Phantom has released a ton of raw, unholy and gruesome albums in the past... look no further than Dementia: The Dark Prophets or Deliverance if you want demonic brutality.

But Scars of Supremacy is in a madhouse of its own.

There is really no other way of describing this album other than by saying that it's pure infernal torture to your mind and sanity.

Scars of Supremacy is an album have to experience yourself if you want to get a full grasp of mental psychosis.

Just don't forget to clean the fecal deposits afterwards.

A Bestial Masterpiece

It's pretty much impossible to review Scars of Supremacy without talking about the vocals.

They are simply demonic.

If you're the type of person who can't stand raw, abrasive vocals, be it growling, screeching or screaming, then this is probably the wrong website for you anyway.

I was obviously not expecting cleans when Divine Agony (the first track) began, but holy Satan... the vocals on Scars of Supremacy are pure evil.

I have never heard a comparable vocal performance.

I've listened to more than my fair share of growling death metal, screeching black metal, wailing depressive whatever, gurgling goregrind and pretty much every genre known for having unintelligible vocals.

But the phenomenal vocals on Scars of Supremacy are beyond bestial.

The songs themselves are phenomenal.

This is a genre defining album and for many reasons, but the songwriting and the otherworldly claustrophobic atmospheres are really what makes Scars of Supremacy a masterpiece of evil.

Each individual song has its golden moments. There is no filler.

This music opens the gate to something outside and within us. In that, Phantom achieves perhaps the original goal of black metal, a sense of bestial transcendence.

This is supreme black metal art from Hell.

Scars of Supremacy score: 97/100.

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