![]() ![]() Instead Immortal is praised as glorious fantasy metal made by nerds and continue to set upon one of the least pretentious black metal pedestals due to their accessible presence. ![]() History now looks at their band in an interesting light and always suggests a brighter spot in mention thanks to their abstention from the mayhemic church burning, murders, and various misanthropy of their supposed peers. Hopefully we get another album in a couple years.When Harald Nævdal ( Daemonaz) and Olve Eikemo ( Abbath) decided to branch out together with growing interest in black metal with some thanks to Euronymous they were both barely in their twenties. er grim? if Demonaz and Horgh can continue down this path without bullshit drama and decades in between releases. The vocals ARE strangely Abbath like, but without the popeyed-ness and he sounds angrier, and faster most of the time than Abbath did. Demonaz took a good 20 years off and still made this album after all that. If you really think about it, this kind of thing almost never happens in music. I must say, for the record, that I am very surprised at some comments I have seen along the lines of "it's even better than All Shall Fall" let me be clear, All Shall Fall was so bad it should be wiped from Immortal's discography. I think it's made many old time fans who had given up on the band (me) and new comers extremely happy. It's got a little something from the Battles, AtHoW and SoND eras. It's got just enough of what made them great in all eras of their music IMO. This past week I am having trouble putting NCG down, I keep trying to listen to other stuff, but just go back to it. I also loved March of the Norse, which was just an undeniable badass metal album. I've regarded Demonaz as one of, if not my favorite guitarist for ~20 years just based on his early work with Immortal. And 'Blacker of Worlds' just gets me thinking 'black' as a verb, like in blacked dot com. Not a good album at all by Immortal standards imo. ![]() Not just pad out the gaps with midpaced hazy, epic, Immortal-by-numbers riffs. If they were going to go this route and trade on reminding everyone of days gone past, then they really needed to knock it out of the park with the compositions. There's nothing resembling a memorable riff - other than in the sense that Demonaz sounds like he's working on slight variations of one single riff for most of the album. But the whole album felt like one stretched out fairly mediocre song. The best thing I can say is that it felt like a fairly agreeable Immortal jam that got my head nodding at points. Old lyrics, old concepts, old imagery, old titles, old Immortal style, sounding quite a lot like Battles or Blizzard, with a touch of ATHOW - but none of it close to the quality of old Immortal. Compositionally and conceptually it feels like a failed attempt to recapture past glories. Otherwise, it feels kind of hollow and depressing to me. You can find it at :Īlternatively, you can find broader metal chat atĮxcellent technical performance, particularly with the vocals and drums. r/BlackMetal has an irc channel, thanks to /u/Illumniggati.
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