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Rare original 2006 Black Horizon release Remastered with bonus cd and slipcase. On their final full-length album, Dissection further refines their brand of icy black/death metal with impressive and frightening results. The guitars, with their gloomy minor-key riffs and intentionally blurred tones, feel like a cold wind on the permafrost. The drums are speedy, intricate, and precise, while frontman Jon Nodtveidt's vocals — delivered in an evil, mid-range rasp — top off what amounts to just a nightmarishly dark sound. To put it another way, very few bands could get away with an album cover that depicts the grim reaper riding across the snow on a black horse while holding a scythe and an hourglass; Dissection is one of them. The songs themselves (six of them, excluding the guitars-only intro and the pseudo-classical piano outro) are all expertly crafted mini-epics. There is a strong sense of thematic unity tying each song's various riffs and sections together, and the soaring, darkly majestic guitar melodies are consistently memorable. Sure, there is a little bit of melodrama here, but Dissection is most certainly on top of their game, and Storm of the Light's Bane is deservedly hailed as a landmark in the melodic black/death metal genre. Track listing: 1. At The Fathomless Depths 2. Night's Blood 3. Unhallowed 4. Where Dead Angels Lie 5. Retribution – Storm Of The Light's Bane 6. Thorns Of Crimson Death 7. Soulreaper 8. No Dreams Breed In Breathless Sleep CD 2: STORM OF THE LIGHTS BANE (UNRELEASED ALTERNATIVE MIX 95) 01. At the Fathomless Depths 02. Nights Blood 03. Unhallowed 04. Where Dead Angels Lie 05. Retribution – Storm of the Lights Bane 06. Feathers Fell 07. Thorns of Crimson Death 08. Soulreaper 09. No Dreams Breed In Breathless Sleep UNRELEASED DEMO 94 10. Nights Blood 11. Retribution Storm of the Lights Bane WHERE DEAD ANGELS LIE MCD 96 (REMASTERED ORIGINAL MIXES) 12. Elisabeth Bathori 13. Where Dead Angels Lie (demo version) 14. Antichrist 15. Son of the Mourning