Style: Experimental black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: A wave of darkness is sweeping in, slowly it engulfs me and everything I hold dear
Thoughts: I had never heard of this band or album before picking this up blindly. The cover art fascinated me to no end, and so did the album title. I figured this would be some atmospheric/dissonant/obscure black metal project... and boy was I ever right.
I knew within the first thirty seconds of dropping the needle that I was going to like the album. The intro is dark and foreboding, the instruments were shrouded by a production that made the riffs just a tad bit obscured, and the vocals sounded like a beast howling from beyond the void.
The essence of Inferno's music is creating a hellish atmosphere, and then dragging the listener through that - willingly or not. At no point in the album do I feel like the music is hollow - even when they strip the music back so only a single instrument plays; it still feels complete. It has everything it needs.
The thing about Paradeigma is that the whole thing sounds like one extended song. Each of the tracks blend into each other perfectly. Often when I'm listening to the album I lose track of what song I'm on, they are all so cohesive and blend together so well that without breaks in-between the tracks I forget where I'm at.
This would normally be something I would consider a detractor for the album, but here the quality of the music is so high, and so consistently good that I wouldn't have it any other way. I am exceptionally picky with obscure/dissonant music these days, but Inferno manages to break through all of those barriers effortlessly. This is an exceptional album.
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