You don't wait to earn your umlaut in the extreme metal game. You reach out at birth and seize it in both fists. The brutal brainchild of Melbourne axe maniac KK Warslut, Deströyer 666 splintered from the hallowed ranks of Bestial Warlust in 1994. The punishing pitch of such intense, Satanic slams as Violence Is the Prince of This World and Unchain the Wolves tore strips off the black-death scene and took its toll on the line-up before Warslut relocated to Europe in 2001. There, his nebulous but nasty outfit has drummed up a following to match their antipodean notoriety via '09's Defiance and the 2011 compile, To the Devil His Due. Meanwhile, their mooted SIEGE album is taking a long road out of Hell.