Style: Black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: This is the true face of evil
Thoughts: I don't know if I'm going to be able to find the right words for this one... how do you describe one of the pinnacles of your favorite genre without sounding like a gushing fanboy? I don't know. I'm torn between making this an incredibly long or an incredibly short summary. Let's just see what happens shall we?
Six songs. Six hymns. Six odes to the best genre on the planet. A Blaze in the Northern Sky is simply perfection. There is nothing on any of these tracks that I would change. The production is perfect. The riffs are perfect. The drums are perfect. The vocals... perfect. It's all perfect.
Is this the best black metal album of all? No... but it is certainly among those for consideration. All of these songs showcase the very best of the genre... and this album was instrumental in getting me into the darkness and mayhem that is black metal.
There isn't much else to say. This embodies everything that black metal is. I don't care if it's become more popular in recent years... in fact that's all the better. More people listening to true black metal is a good thing. This is the very essence of black metal distilled into six songs.
Written July 21st 2024
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