BEHEMOTH Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
I was aware of Behemoth from pretty early on but don’t really remember this album coming out. To be honest the cover is very stock standard Black Metal and there’s…
IMMORTAL
Immortal emerged from Bergen, Norway, in the late 1980s and early 1990s as an unmistakable force in the second wave of black metal. Anchored by the songwriting partnership of Abbath…
BEHERIT Drawing Down the Moon
This is hailed as a classic in Black Metal circles, but I have to say I don’t really get it. BEHERIT Drawing Down the Moon is the first album from…
SARCOFAGO I.N.R.I.
SARCOFAGO I.N.R.I. is this Brazillian bands first record. Sarcofago is fronted by Wagner Lamounier who had a couple of years before left an embryonic version of Sepultura to form his…
CRADLE OF FILTH The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
CRADLE OF FILTH The Principle of Evil Made Flesh is in my opinion a truely ground breaking album. The band took their early death metal / black metal demo sound…
ROTTING CHRIST Thy Mighty Contract
ROTTING CHRIST had just put out their debut EP not long before this and here we have the bands first full length recording which was released in 1993. I’m going…
BURZUM Aske
I have mixed feelings about this one. As someone who has take pro active anti racism stances in my time I don’t tend to give this guy that much time.…
MAYHEM De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Ok things had progressed, fallen apart, been rebuilt and sensationalised a lot by the time MAYHEM was able to put out their second album. The album had been written in…
IMPALED NAZARENE Tol Compt Norz Norz Norz
Here’s another classic of the Black Metal genre, Impaled Nazarene Tol Compt Norz Norz Norz (which translated means “All numbered 666”) was released by the Finnish group in 1993. By…
IMMORTAL Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism
Well Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism managed to come straight out of the gate with what was a very professional and quite well recorded debut. Bear in mind at round this…