CRADLE OF FILTH - MIDIAN (Review)

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Artist : CRADLE OF FILTH
Album : MIDIAN

Cool Track/s : Cthulhu Dawn, Saffron's Curse, Lord Abortion
Rate : 9 / 10

Midian is the fourth full-length album by Cradle of Filth, released on Halloween 2000. At the time it was considered their most commercial and accessible album to date. It is a concept album inspired by Clive Barker's novel Cabal and his subsequent film version Nightbreed. Midian is more guitar-oriented than its predecessors. The cover art was created by JK Potter.The song "Cthulhu Dawn" invokes the character from horror writer H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Many other heavy metal bands - including Metallica, Morbid Angel, and Bal-Sagoth have namechecked Cthulhu.

I really love this album. It contains great tracks, great black metal tracks. Cthulhu Dawn, Saffron's Curse, Lord Abortion, Creatures that Kissed in Cold Mirrors, Her Ghost In The Fog. Basicly, I like them all. Cradle of Filth still have their magic touch exploring their nightmares into vampiric tracks. Built a dark atmosphere inside your
mind. into The world of Midian.

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CRADLE OF FILTH - BITTER SUITES TO SUCCUBI (Review)

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Artist : CRADLE OF FILTH
Album : BITTER SUITES TO SUCCUBI

Cool Track/s : Born in a Burial Gown, Summer Dying Fast, The Black Goddess Rises II
Rate : 9 / 10

Cradle of Filth's Bitter Suites to Succubi is essentially an EP - or "transitional mini album" as Dani Filth would have it - bridging the gap between Midian and Damnation and a Day while the band negotiated their label change from Music For Nations to Sony. It features only six new tracks (two of which are instrumentals), but is bolstered to album-length with three reworkings of songs from The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, and a cover version. It was the band's first release on their own Abracadaver label. Uniquely in the band's canon, it features exactly the same band members as the previous album. "Dinner at Deviant's Palace" is actually The Lord's Prayer played backwards.

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GORGOROTH - AD MAJOREM SATHANAS GLORIAM (Review)

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Artist : GORGOROTH

Album : AD MAJOREM SATHANAS GLORIAM

Cool Track/s : Wound Upon Wound, Carving Giant, White Seed

Rate : 9 / 10

Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth. It was released in 2006 on Regain Records, and was nominated for Norway's 2006 Spellemann award in the 'Metal' category. This was the last Gorgoroth album to feature the line-up of Gaahl, Infernus and King.The title is Latin for "For The Greater Glory Of Satan". It is a parody of Ad majorem Dei gloriam ("for the greater glory of God"), the motto of the Society of Jesus, conceived by Infernus after having read an article on the counter-reformation and the Jesuits. This is so far the only Gorgoroth album not to have any titles and lyrics in Norwegian.

This one is a great album by another Black Metal Veteran, Gorgoroth. I really enjoyed their black metal style, that is fast, harsh, but still melodic. I don't really into their lyrics though, but still, i highly recommended this one to be one of your valuable black metal collections.

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EMPEROR - IN THE NIGHTSIDE ECLIPSE (Review)

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Artist : EMPEROR

Album : IN THE NIGHTSIDE ECLIPSE

Cool Track/s : I am The Black Wizard, The Burning Shadows Of Silence

Rate : 8 / 10

'IN THE NIGHTSIDE ECLIPSE' is the debut album by Norwegian black metal band 'EMPEROR'. This album features one of their best-known song, "I am the Black Wizards", and is considered a defining album for the black metal genre. It also featured two cover songs as bonus tracks (listed below), the first of which also appears on the Bathory tribute album "In Conspiracy With Satan".

When you talking about 'Emperor', then you have to talk about complexity. Their music is - i say - complex atmospheric black metal. The blast beats drums is always mixed with keyboards and fast but catchy guitar riffs. Make their music so rich and atmospheric. And the scream.. well, it is black metal with Big B, indeed!! For you black metal freaks, you should have this one!!

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BURZUM - BURZUM / ASKE

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Artist : BURZUM

Album : ASKE / BURZUM

Cool Track/s : Ea, Lord Of The Depth, My Journey To The Stars

Rate : 9 / 10

Burzum began in 1991 as a prominent and influential Norwegian black metal solo project of Varg Vikernes (born Kristian Vikernes). Originally, he used the pseudonym Count Grishnackh. Burzum was instrumental in the crystallisation of early black metal, much of which is due to the infamy attributed to Vikernes since the murder of his former bandmate (Varg played bass on one of Mayhem's albums) Øystein Aarseth, who is known better to some by his stage name of "Euronymous".

Vikernes has described Burzum as a kind of "spell" or recreation of an imaginary world tied in with Pagan history. Vikernes claims the intent to create this fantasy world came from dissatisfaction with the real world. He has stated the "message" of Burzum can be found in the lyrics of the first song on this album (Feeble Screams From Forests Unknown)

In my oppinion, this album is really classic. Atmospheric. From start to finish, the tracks build an atmosphere of darkness, sadness, and despair. My favorits are Ea, Lord of The Depth and My Journey To The Stars. The riffs are so melodic that you won't easily forget, instead it will follow you through your dreams. Bringing your dark souls into surface. If you're a true black metal fans, you should have this one.

A Masterpiece !! Hail Darkness !!

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CRADLE OF FILTH - DUSK N' HER EMBRACE (Review)

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Artist : CRADLE OF FILTH
Album : DUSK N' HER EMBRACE

Cool Track/s : Funeral In Carpathia, Dusk N'Her Embrace, Malice Through
The Looking Glass
Rate : 9 / 10

Cradle of Filth is a black metal band formed in Suffolk, England in 1991. The band's sound has gradually evolved from raw, traditional black metal, to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal and other extreme metal styles, while its lyrical themes and imagery are heavily influenced by gothic literature, poetry, mythology and horror films. According to Metal Hammer magazine, Cradle Of Filth is the most successful British metal band since Iron Maiden.

Dusk N' Her Embrace is Cradle of Filth's third release and second full-length album, it's differs greatly from the band's previous two releases in terms of sound. The music is faster and more accomplished, and Dani Filth's vocal gymnastics are at their most extreme. The album is loosely inspired by the writing of Sheridan Le Fanu and many of the songs hint at vampirism, although vampires are not mentioned by name.

This Album, in my opinion, is the most 'black metal' album among all Cradle's great albums. I like them all, but i really love this one. The sound is really atmospheric and dark, really rich with great black metal riffs. I just love to play 'Funeral In Carpathia' on my stereo when i miss Cradle Of Filth. Dusk N' Her Embrace is bloody classic!!

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HECATE ENTHRONED - UPON PROMETHEAN SHORES (UNSCRIPTURED WATERS) (Review)

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Artist : HECATE ENTHRONED

Album : UPON PROMETHEAN SHORES (UNSCRIPTURED WATERS)

Cool Track/s : Ode For A Haunted Woods, To Feed Upon Thy Dreams

Rate : 8 / 10

Hecate Enthroned is a symphonic black metal band from the North of England. The band formed in 1993 under the name Daemonum, A year or so later, they changed their name to Hecate Enthroned, this time playing a more melodic black metal style. In 1995 they recorded their demo "Ode for a Haunted Wood", which got the attention of the British label Blackend Records. Blackend had it re-mastered under the title "Under Promethean Shores (Unscriptured Waters) in 1996."This album is my favorite classic black metal album. Actually, my twin brother (Idur-311, hail..) bought it when he was in one of his adventure, in the land of the Gods, BALI! Nice choice, Bro !!

The album is really cool, started with atmospheric opening 'Promethea' with whispering voice, they struck your ear with Jon's long scream and their melodic track 'The Crimson Thorns'. Then from track to track they explore their darkest dreams with blastbeats and erotic sounds of guitars and keyboards. 'To Feed Upon Thy Dreams' and 'An Ode for A Haunted Wood' is my favorite track. But,overall, i like all the tracks from this album. If you're into black metal, you got to have this one. Bloody classic, Be sure..!!

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