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 ...
Frago 09.11.2009
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