(my first review, or at least a try at reviewing)

Formed in 1989 VON is possibly first american black metal band. The members, VON(GOAT?), KILL, SNAKE, hide behind their pseudonomyns. Only one member are nown by his real life name, KILL aka Joe Allen from Abscess and Eatmyfuk.

They play extremely simplistic and monotonic ritual like black metal. Usual VON track contains continuos blast beat, few simple 3 chord riffs, gruntin vocals and occasional drum fills and screeching guitar solos. And this is what makes VON great. Tracks which are almost 90% same create very ritualistic feeling and atmosphere. The vocals bring mind an satanic high priest summonig demons from pits of hell. The sound quality of the recording enchanches this feeling. It is dirty and raw and sometimes it seems that guitars fall back of the music while bass being in comftorable unexistance. Within the "album" is tracks that feel like climaxes of satanic rituals(Wentt) and slower tracks(Veadtuck, Chalice of Blood).

On this "album" is Satanic Blood demo, Blood Angel demo and 12 live tracks with 2 new songs.

Overall: This is black metal brought to perfection. This is utterly evil and black recording. VON has shown how black metal should be done. 10/10