Liberation

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Product Details

• Audio CD (April 22, 2003)
• Original Release Date: April 22, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Candlelight
• ASIN: B00008WG3C
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #21,783 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Debut from growing Norwegian Black Metal band featuring current/former members of Satyricon. The five-piece have played along side the likes of Gorgoroth and Cadaver Inc. 10 tracks. Candlelight Records. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 4.5 stars, June 27, 2003

By	Ellis Fate (UK) - See all my reviews

This 10 track cd will quite simply blow you away. From the outset the album is pure black carnage with brutal speed. Riders Of The Apocalypse is a fantastic tune, heavy, harsh and yet brought together well by the lyrics. My favourite track off the album is Legion, simple misanphropic style lyrics with charging music to back it up with a very 'march like' feel to it. Some of the tracks on this album are a little dissapointing but overall the songs that are good are worth the album cost alone.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brutal & Satanic, November 12, 2003

By	Roland "Roland" (WC, Ca, USA) - See all my reviews

This CD is just awe inspiringly dark, fast and evil black metal. The vocals are perfect, the guitars are lightning fast and Frost is probably the best drummer in black metal, from Satyricon to this band. They could have sped this up but i could have faith that theyre really that good. The production is not like darkthrone like everyone is saying, its exactly like Ulver's Nattens Madrigal, making those buzz sawing riffs and high snares all throughout the CD, and the arrangements and riffs are like Marduk, so i think those are the two similarities to other bands from 1349. It is a perfectly brutal, war-like black metal CD, if you like panzer division and Nattens Madrigal, get this as fast as you can.

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Freeze your ears off, August 20, 2003

By A Customer

Among all the reviewers, has no one considered that this CD's inhuman speed and strange timbral appearance may stem from cheating? 1349 sound exactly like when I used to play my late 80s Sodom cassettes with "high speed dubbing" for the fun of it. Beyond the shadow of a doubting Thomas these guys allowed themselves a little hoax in that what we're hearing runs slightly faster than what was initially performed.

That doesn't make "Liberation" bad in any way... parody or not, this over-the-top version of Darkthrone is definetely a full-fledged black metal album having me ravished with grimness!