Advantages: Some fantastic riffs on show, varied songwriting. Disadvantages: Some slower songs are a little drawn out, some old fans may not like the clean vocals
Prog seems to be in the air in black metal circles these days. Nachtmystium have gone all psychedelic, Enslaved and Shining are obsessed with Pink Floyd and even orthodox Norwegian Black Metal stalwarts 1349 have a Floyd cover on their new album. On their new full length 'Negative Megalomania', Italy's Forgotten Tomb have expanded upon their depressive BM formula, resulting in a varied and intriguing album that has polarised opinion amongst their ... ...Burzum-style agonised screams and bleak, fuzzy guitars; melancholy riffs in the vein of early Katatonia and frequent sections of frenetic black metal blasting, but alongside these are drawn out chuggy/ambient doomier sections, post-rock moments, a greater emphaisis on the catchy 'black and roll' style popularised by the likes of Shining, and most notably of all, the introduction of clean vocals! These came as quite a shock to me, as vocalist Herr ...
Burning_Darkness 12.06.2009
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