One of the most infamous black metal albums ever, and for good reason. This is the album that made me become a metalhead. I had listened to metal before this, bands like Metallica, System of a Down, Megadeth, Slipknot etc. But it wasn’t until I heard this album that I truly fell in love with the genre of metal. The atmosphere that this album creates is like nothing else, it sounds exactly like the album cover and listening to it makes you feel like you are in that frigid and frosty ... read more
You've done it again Austin. Panopticon is a band that is easily one of my favourites within the atmospheric black metal genre (which is a contender for my favourite metal genre, so that's saying a lot), I love essentially all of his previous albums. With this I obviously had very high expectations going into this new release of his, "Det hjemsøkte hjertet", the final album of The Laurentian Trilogy. And it’s safe to say my expectations have been fulfilled, no, ... read more
Last Fair Deal Gone Down is the 5th studio album by Swedish band Katatonia, released in 2001 on Peaceville Records.
This album is Katatonia's masterpiece, everything about is executed perfectly. The production is extremely lush and spacious while still not sounding overly clean and polished. The instrumental performances are super tight, especially the drumming. The sound of the guitars is quite varied, sometimes going for a heavier sound, softer sound, a more ethereal shoegaze sound, it ... read more
A genre-blending masterpiece, Classica is the 3rd studio album by Italian metal band Novembre. Released via Century Media Records on the 24th of January 2000.
This album takes elements of death-doom metal, progressive metal, gothic metal, melodic death metal and black metal, blending all of these influences together and creating a very coherent and consistent sound, which is always impressive whenever so many different influences are involved. The way this album takes that usual gothic ... read more