Okay. Apator is one Dutch gentleman named Robert van Arnhem, and his name was mentioned often in the death/black zines of the day ('88-'92 or so) as being just about the most ridiculous entry into either of the scene's entire history. After hearing 1992's wretched demo tape Masturbates In Praise Of Black Satan, I can believe it. Although the Encyclopedia Metallum site insists Apator played instruments, there are none on this recording. What we have his a guy doing gore-grind vocals accapella, with frequent silences in between. He in fact simply repeats the same words over and over again for minutes at a time. My version of this download does not split the tracks, instead pushing them all together into one file. So for the sake of historical accuracy, below is the actual track listing:
1. Satan vomits (on holy Mary's virgin child)
2. Rapor Satan
3. Craving Satan's violence
4. Kneel before Satanic Moloch
5. Destroyer Satan
6. The Satanic bloodspraying
7. Rape the bloodied Christ
8. Rise of antichrist
9. Satan's flames grow higher
Now bear in mind that after you know the titles, you have to know that all the songs consist of is Apator repeating the title over and over again. It's pretty dire, pointless stuff, hardly music at all. If there was something interesting going on here, I could at least recommend it as some kind of curiosity, but it's repetitive and dull. And, if Encyclopedia Metallum is to be believed, this was his sixth or seventh release, with many more to follow before the Apator project ended (thankfully) somewhere around 1995. After looking at some of the contents of his last releases, he seemed to be moving into a sort of A.C.-like "stupid is good" humorous vein, although I can't verify the contents because finding Apator's music is like trying to find gay bars in Nebraska. And I can't post the cover of this tape, because it features Apator doing exactly what the title suggests, and I'm not having my blog shut down because of this total metal moron. And perhaps the scariest thing is that some of the tracks here were pressed to vinyl as a 1991 split EP with the equally questionable Exmortes (no, not Exmortis, the excellent death metal band, but another one man Dutch project). I wonder if he ever got a good fanzine review or played live? Did he ever have fans? Will some misguided uberkvlt label issue an Apator box set? Will he someday have a coffee table book ala Hellhammer? Those notions will haunt me I guarantee you.
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