I was waiting for a decent band to attempt Immortal’s frost demon style of relentlessly vicious, frozen black metal, and so we have Belfegor from Poland.
Combining many of the best names in heavy metal and the full-on concept of a concept album, Edguy vocalist Tobias Sammet has put together a winning project.
Some even older than what I had, revamps of material I liked dirty (but these are cool too), and will provide even diehards with between-the-cracks stuff.
Marduk aren’t Satyricon or Mayhem and don’t aspire to be pioneers in the field, but that’s what I love about ’em, they’re AC/DC for true lovers of Lucifer.
I recall the instant plug-me-in magic of British Steel, and the inevitable ascendance of the band (like watching Metallica blow up with Masters of Puppets).
Three varied albums for this creatively exploded Norwegian duo. An album less phreaked than Neonism, slicker, classier, more majestically modern black.
The result of recording difficulties and saddled with an awkward album title, Katatonia wears those Opeth comparisons more deliberately than ever before.