Description

Original Wounded Love release from 1997

The second and final full length album with Algaion showed a change of direction. Gone are the days of the Algaion we once knew, the one that put together high-speed forays into melodic yet still somewhat atypical black metal. Instead, on ‘General Enmity’, the band, led by Marten Bjorkman (Octinomos) and Mathias Kamijo (Hypocrisy/Pain), take a turn towards a more heavy power metal, with a lot of doomy influences, and some plain metal parts. Whatever you do, don’t get ‘General Enmity’ expecting to hear a melodic black metal tour-de-force, as there is little to no black metal to be found on this disc. Still very honorable that Algaion took a leap outside the norm and did their own thing. This album was unlike the first two recordings form Algaion not recorded in the Abyss studio but in a studio run by a TV sound engineer who had never worked with this kind of music before.

Track listing:
1. Inductio
2. General Enmity
3. No Will Without Fire
4. Unstained Progress
5. Nature Red In Tooth And Claw
6. An Impending Disaster
7. Mangod Hold The Sceptre
8. Lies Of Human Value
9. The Angel Of Decease
10. Indifference Beyond Misanthropy
11. It’s Darker In The Present
12. The Root Of Inhumanity
13. Conclusio