TAPE 2003 by C-tan Industries
TAPE 2011 re-release by Zwaertgevegt

1: Skullfucking the Holy Virgin
2: Deathcamp Treblinka
3: Hass und Rache!
4: Satanik Warlust
5: Stars of My Sacrifice
6: Torment in Hell
7: Worship the Goat
8: Antichristian Crusade
9: Burn the Churches!
10: Unholy Blood
11: Humiliation by Spermbaptism
12: Slashing Demonclaws
13: Kneel Down for Satan
14: Anal Impalement of Jesus
15: They Are Coming
16: Terror Damnation
17: Satans Grand Inquisitor
18: Raping Pious Nuns

line-up:
Mortifer (instruments, vocals) - alias of Fulco Helmig

Review: Raptor is a project that thrives on an extreme black metal sound, that creeps its way towards noise territory, but on Antichristian Terror Propaganda this is not yet the case. This sounds just like raw, static rich black metal. The first thing that strikes me is the weird guitar work on this demo. At first, it sounds like there’s a lot of complex stuff going on, but soon it becomes apparent that all the guitar work is actually a set of random chords, and only rarely it turns into a real song. Sure, black metal can sometimes really be enriched by improvisation, and I explicitely refer to Bestial Summoning, but there’s a line between playing random riffs in a song and a conglomerate of random chords. At times Raptor does the first, but most of the time it is not. The only thing that hides this and makes this release enjoyable, is the extreme over-the-top rawness of the recording, which also hides the inferior drum machine in the back. For the state this release is in, 35 minutes are quite a long sit-through, but if you as a masochist like a relentless beating, be my guest and indulge.

Source: NLBMe exclusive, November 2018.

CD 2005 by Time Before Time
classification: black metal / noise

1: Hass und Rache!
2: Satanic Warlust
3: Scars of My Sacrifice
4: Torment in Hell
5: Worship the Goat
6: Antichristian Crusade
7: Unholy Blood
8: Slashing Demonclaws
9: Kneel Down for Satan
10: Anal Impalement of Jesus
11: They Are Coming
12: Terror Damnation

line-up:
Mortifer (instruments, vocals)

demo CD 2005
TAPE 2010 re-release by Zwaertgevegt

1: Hail Satan! (intro)
2: Sadistic Holocaust in Heaven
3: Holy Prince of Eternal Death
4: Demonic Cross Inversion
5: In the Abyss (interlude)
6: Black Satanic TerrorGoat
7: Unholy Walachian Blood-Frenzy
8: Grave Desecration in the Name of Satan
9: Arcadian Goatreich: Empire of Fire and Chaos
10: Shadows (interlude)
11: Defamed Icons Bleeding with Rage
12: Crowning the Antichrist
13: Hail Victory! (outro)

line-up:
Mortifer (instruments, vocals)

demo CD 2005
TAPE 2011 re-release by Zwaertgevegt

1: The Devil’s Doom
2: Leviathan
3: March of Death
4: Coffinhunter
5: Diabolical Genocide
6: Necromantic Rites
7: Madness of the Satanist
8: Chaos in Darkness

line-up:
Mortifer (instruments, vocals)

Review: Necromantic Rites is a Raptor view of Hellhammer, complete with the low-fi drum computer and one-take-song-done approach. The riffs might be stolen from Hellhammer’s Apocalyptic Raids and the first Celtic Frost mini-albums, but I don’t really care. This is not the kind of black metal we’re getting buried in nowadays. Still, there’s plenty of unused room for improvement on Necromantic Rites. The vocals are too effect-drenched to my taste, there’s only guitar driving this entire thing, and the drums are flat and one-dimensional. If these things had been done with more effort, this would have been a far better demo than it is. Hellhammer’s music can use a good wall of guitars - we’re not talking Under a Funeral Moon here - and a solid rhythm section. On the other hand, how many Dutch black metal bands have taken this old-school BM-approach?! And Raptor gets major cudos for that! Oh, and try to stop the demo before the last, highly redundant, even anticlimatic, instrumental Chaos in Darkness starts.

Source: NLBMe exclusive, November 2018.

demo CD 2006
TAPE 2010 re-release by Zwaertgevegt

1: The Endless Darkness (intro)
2: Anger and Wrath
3: Storming Towards Damnation
4: Marching under the Banner of Hatred
5: Humiliated Submission to Perverted Lust
6: The Tyranic Fury of War
7: Beneath Your Graves We Hunt
8: Gazing at Total Terror
9: My Fists Ablaze for Satan
10: Merciless Massacre
11: Ancient Gods of Vengeance
12: Defiling the Chapel
13: Corpses of Our Enemy
14: The Hunt of the Raptor (bonustrack)

line-up:
Mortifer (instruments, vocals)

Review: Somehow Raptor combines the best trademark elements of Antichristian Terror Propaganda (the noise-bordering black metal) and Necromantic Rites (the Hellhammer-inspired songs) on Anger and Wrath. All the things that made these demo’s flawed are (to a certain extent) addressed here. The production sounds fuller and more satisfying. The drums, sadly, are as flat as ever and the songs are relatively short, but the vocals aren’t drowning in its echoes anymore. The material is mostly mid-tempo, which works well with the riffs, which often sound suspiciously familiar, but are not as ‘copied’ as on Necromantic Rites. As suspected, there’s still room for improvement, but Raptor as a band has shown noticable growth. It might have been my digital copy, but the closing track misses a purpose. This should have been put on another demo, or better yet, another project, since it has nothing in common with the previous tracks, neither in sound nor in composition.

Source: NLBMe exclusive, November 2018.