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Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao

Advantages: Once you listen to black metal of this ilk there is no going back to the more traditional.
Disadvantages: People do not listen to this type of music with an open ear and this album is a tough one

With Ordo Ad Chao, Mayhem have taken the immutable principles of black metal and have created an album that, I believe, along with the music of Deathspell Omega, starts to redefine what black metal is. Black metal used to be an excersise in making essentially very melodic music fast, atmospheric and controversial. The cutting edge of black metal is now very different. The one weak point in most black metal is the use of defined melody, harmony that ...
...presented in a 'black metal' idiom. What Mayhem have created here is a sound that bears little to no resemblance to old black metal yet is more black than the likes of darkthrone or ulver. Honestly this is quite a special album. It truly delves into very dark audial territory that has been rarely trodden before and quite honestly after listening, the old black metal sounds weak and childish compared. Attila the vocalist here provides an excellent ...

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Review of Ordo Ad Chao - Mayhem

Wonderful Progressive Black Metal

Advantages: Holds your intrest, is otherwordly.
Disadvantages: None

Formed back in 1991 and hailing from Norway, Enslaved have been at the forefront of this genre along with a few other bands. Though they started out as predominantly a Black Metal band from Norway, their progressive leanings kicked in around 1997 with their album ELD, and from this album on, you definitely hear other genres slipping into their music from using clean vocals, growls and screams, to clean guitars, unusual chord structures, melodic rhythms ...
...of. I particularly love the fact that some of the lyrics are Norwegian, whichs makes for more of an Auditory experience than concentrating on the intellect of the lyrical content, which, what I can understand, is very well written. this album was released in 2004 and is their 8th full length studio album. Here is a quick run down on what to expect from each song: Intro: Green Reflection" – 0:51 A visceral introduction... a feeling of floating ...

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Review of Isa - Enslaved

Let precious chaos vent.

Advantages: good music, heavy
Disadvantages: a few weak songs and filler

...not really needed. 2. Principle of Evil Made Flesh. Wow, this song really kicks you in the balls. It is fast, heavy, and evil, just the way metal should be right? Great, apocalyptic lyrics are key to this song. Their is a guitar solo in it too, although it is very hard to hear, as it was mixed poorly. There is a female vocal part in the middle, after the solo, speaking some words of German before the song kicks back into full speed ahead. 3. The ...
...popular. This version though is way different than the one found on Vempire. It is slower, sloppier, and not as heavy. I can't really find any fault in it, except that maybe the keyboard part at the beginning may turn away some die hard Black Metal fans. 4. Iscariot. Another short instrumental piece. Skip. 5. The Black Goddess Rises. Another CoF classic and deservingly so. The intro piano part is very eerie, and reminds of an old late night 50's ...

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Review of Principle Of Evil Made Flesh, The - Cradle Of Filth

Definately a must listen.

Advantages: lots of distortion, fast paced, and incorperates different subgenres of metal
Disadvantages: long, could give you a headache if you listen to it for too long

...album, and it's definately different. Monotheist has a a much darker and more sinister sound, whitch is a bit more common with doom metal, or gothic metal. The main thing I like about this album is the last three songs, all starting with the word "Triptych", but they're all totally different. The first one, entitled "Totengott", is definately the creepiest out of these three songs, but not the creepiest out of the album. I think that song would ...
...is definately the longest song in the album, at over 14 minutes long. I think that 14 minutes is a little long, but it's worth the listening. Satyr from Satyricon takes lead vocals for a little bit in the song. You get a more Celtic Frost feel in this song. The last one, called Winter (Requiem, Chapter Three: Finale), is the prettiest and the only instrumental song on this CD, and it's beautiful. There's no other words to describe it. So, all in ...

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Review of Monotheist - Celtic Frost

Best Cradle album.

Advantages: Creates an atmosphere felt with very few albums
Disadvantages: You have to be in the right mood to listen to it

Already being the proud owner of five different cradle of filth albums, when my dad decided he disliked "Damnation and a day" i offered him a few quid for it. What i received was my favourite Cradle album. The album creates a huge atmosphere and in depth world. This is mainly done because it features the 40-piece Budapest Film Orchestra and 32-piece Budapest Film Choir. The concept The album is in four parts. The first two parts tell of the ...
...about satan's manipulation on Earth. So overall the album is based on the old testament. The lyrics The lyrics are some of my favourites. "Angels in raiments, As pure as coal, Taking their payments, In tortured mortal souls" The lyrics arn't for the faint hearted and arn't too popular with Christians but they are intelligent. You cannot base intelligence on opinion. The tracks I. Fantasia Down "A Bruise Upon the Silent Moon" (Intro) ...

joe-survey 28.12.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Damnation And A Day [PA] - Cradle Of Filth