Customer Reviews

Onwards Into Battle

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Another classic album from Bloodthorn - this one is much more produced than 'In the shadow of your black wings'. It is faster, and the instruments are played with more technicality. There is also the very interesting use of accoustic guitars and distorted vocal settings. A must for fans of Dimmu Borgir and the like.

unlike traditional black metal, this album is centered around melody, guitars and voice. the melody is a mix of guitar and keys while the voice of Krell is snake-like and sinister. and let us not leave out the beautiful female voice that is poeticly incorporated into these songs of masterpiece. the songs themselves are not overly fast with blistering double bass, but are melodic, talented, and very impressive in their own right.

When I first heard this album, it definitely gave me the feel of riding into the front lines of a medieval battle. This is a great effort by Bloodthorn and faster than their first album. All of the songs on here are good, but my favorite by far is 'Day of Reckoning'. I used to give that particular song all kinds of air time on the radio while DJing in Nashville, TN. One of the downsides to this album is that the speed never reaches anything too fast. However, I'm positive this is done in an effort to preserve the mood of the album. The biggest reason I give this album 3 stars and not more is because the production quality could be better. On a number of songs it seems as though everything gets just a bit too much garbled so the clarity is not there to make this a truly phenomenal piece of work. However, fans of the low-fi, old school black metal (ala Emperor's first album) will probably enjoy the lack of production. I DO recommend this to people who are fans or war metal or black metal, though. Onwards into battle, metal brethren!