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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stark, primitive, yet emotive brutality, April 29, 2002
This review is from: Transylvanian Hunger (Audio CD)
It's become almost a cliche when reviewing this album to say that it was not initially impressive. I tried to approach this album as death metal and was disappointed by the fuzzy production and lack of clearly defined riffs. Then I realized that this, of course, is BLACK metal( it epitomizes it, in fact!). The focus here is on chilling, dark atmosphere, which the murk contributes to immeasurably. The shifting wall of guitar noise actually manages to trick your ears into hearing orchestral/choral washes that aren't really there, a neat aural illusion that inevitably suggests conjuring demons out of thin air, and for once adds a hint of authenticity to the usual "evil" posturing. Not to mention that this shredding, pounding, thrashing golgothic slime creature of an album simply KILLS with it's single-minded assault, and Nucturno Culto's rotting larnyx delivers the most feral death grunts I've ever heard. Most of the lyrics are in Norwegian, adding to the sense of arcane mystery (well,to non-Norwegians at least). These guys come across as ignorant morons in interviews, but paying attention to their political views is giving them too much credit: these idiots-savant are at their best when they channel their frozen-vikings-thawed-in-modern-sanitized-Scandinavian-post-DeStijl confusion through a wall of cruddy amps, creating this deliciously unholy mess.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
COLD, RAW, UGLY, EVIL, February 3, 1999
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This review is from: Transylvanian Hunger (Audio CD)
Superior! the greatest black metal work of all time, it sits pleasantly next to Bathory's 'Under the Sign..' as the definitive black metal album. Pure ugliness and cold hatred, true misanthropy. trebley guitars shred over Fenriz racing drums and horribly trollish ugly hatefilled vocals from Nocturno Culto. a perfectly drunken recording for misanthropes. horribly atmospheric with terrible production complete with monochrome aesthetics. Fenriz and the Count write some excellent lyrics as usual. This surpasses any of their previous or latter work...pure evil.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
awesome atmospheric black metal, February 17, 2000
This review is from: Transylvanian Hunger (Audio CD)
The only negative comment I e ver hear about this album is repetitive. I know it might seem like a paradox, but yes it is, in a good way. The riffs seem to be pounded into your head to the point of where you let the atmosphere soak in. The vocals on this album are awesome, the guitar riffs very bleak and black. Black metal at it's finest.
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