From the Entrails to the Dirt

From the Entrails to the Dirt
Compilation album by various bands
Released	2005
Genre	Black metal
Length	53:53
Label	End All Life Productions

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Archaic Magazine	(favorable)
Spirit of Metal	(19/20)

From the Entrails to the Dirt is a three-part vinyl set compiling songs by Malicious Secrets and three other French black metal acts: Antaeus, Mütiilation and Deathspell Omega. It was originally released by End All Life Productions as a set of three gatefold singles limited to 666 copies, with one Malicious Secrets track and one other band's part on each. The album was later reissued as a digipack CD.

Filip Dupont of Archaic Magazine described the music of Malicious Secrets as "pure chaos and junk […], divine for some – rubbish for the most". Nattskog of Spirit of Metal Webzine described the style as "very violent, very strange with completely barbarian vocals above music that isn't less [barbarian]". The Antaeus track "Gates to the Outside" follows the chaotic and brutal style typical for the band. Nattskog described Mütiilation's cover of "My Way" as "in the style expected from Mütiilation: ailing, raw, depressive". Mütiilation's "Tears of a Melancholic Vampire" is a melancholic song, while the final track "Mass Grave Aesthetics" was described by Dupont as "dark, full of atmosphere and unique in its style".

Filip Dupont of Archaic Magazine called From the Entrails to the Dirt "pure cult in the deepest of the underground", considering Deathspell Omega's "Mass Grave Aesthetics" to be the best track and the one "that makes this 'From The Entrails To The Dirt' such a remarkable release". Nattskog of Spirit of Metal Webzine recommends the release to "adepts of a pure and frankly extreme black metal".

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