Style: Black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Elite Swedish black metal
Thoughts: This is Lord Belial's best album. This album is pure spite, pure hatred, pure vengeance. Right out of the gate the title track starts off with a blast beat, blistering riffs, and venom filled vocals. As the song progresses the hatred never decreases, but it does get a touch of melody.
This is the blueprint for the album: blast beats, blistering riffs, catchy yet violent melodies, a touch of flute from time to time, vocals that sound like an executioner giving last rites, and more blast beats. There are so many blast beats on the album that it's rare to find anything else going on with the drums. That may be a detractor for some people... myself included more often than not. Except... it's not. I can't picture this album with anything but the blast beats.
The constant thump of the drums gives the album its aggressive nature. War drums calling the soldiers to move ever forward as the battalions gather. Listen to the introduction of Black Winter Bloodbath and tell me that's not an image that instantly comes to mind.
From front to back, the album shreds. One of the pillars of Swedish black metal. I'd put this up against any of the best albums form the Norwegian second wave, it'll hold its ground at very least and outshine many of the staples of the genre. Violence incarnate.
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