Style: black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: ....satan
Thoughts: Holy fuck what an opener.
Not sure I can think of another Dark Funeral song that starts out an album as strong as Unchain My Soul. In fact it's hard for me to think of many black metal songs that are as good of an opener as this song. The band has found the perfect formula on Where Shadows Forever Reign and they exploit it to maximum effect.
What is that formula you may ask? Well it's simple. Blistering fast riffs, blast beats, and incredibly well executed vocals. Except when its not. Some of the album is blisteringly slow riffs, well executed drums and menacing vocals. The band switches between these two throughout the whole album.
What's that? It sounds like normal black metal? Yes, you would be absolutely correct in that assertion. This is black metal through and through. There is nothing original about this in the slightest... but there doesn't need to be. This is a classic case of a genre being executed to perfection - it's so good that it's impossible to ignore.
These riffs have power to them. These riffs have purpose. The music energizes me like so few other things do. It's easily one of the most generic black metal albums I own, but that doesn't matter at all because it's easily one of the finest examples of how to write good black metal in my collection as well.
I love it when one of the classic bands in the genre create something worthy of their early works. Where Shadows Forever Reign is exactly that. This is up there with Secrets of the Dark Arts and Vobiscum Satanas. God I love this album.
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