Description

Swedish pressed music cassette. Black cassette with gold paper label. Limited 300 copies

With Armagedda’s third and final studio offering (again at Necromorbus, so choice and suitably grim production abounds) we are presented with a dark, ancient, and punishing embodiment of pure fucking darkness. This isn’t the nowadays black metal Nargaroth’s pissed at, nor is it the modern black metal Fenriz chastised in a Maelstrom interview. This is true, scary-ass, old school black metal done right. No, not done the way Darkthrone have been doing it (and their endless clones) for 10 albums. Done RIGHT. Abandoning the Under a Funeral Moon-worship of their debut The Final War Approaching (which was by no means less than fantastic), and laying waste even to the pure Swedish glory (understatement.) of Only True Believers, Armagedda have moved completely into the nether with an aura of experimentation and ravishing grimness (pun not intended) that the wimps at Moribund ought to take notice, since their “cold, grim, evil” hordes are, well, to put it lightly, pretty fuckin’ basic. HERE is cold, grim, and EVIL fucking black metal. And it’s not even that fast. In fact, the album is predominantly mid-paced, but it’s filled with lysergic dirges that easily qualify as doom. A tome of death so dark that the songs literally drip with blackness. Soaked in reverb and experimental drone, the riffs that guide the listener into the abyss are the perfect soundtrack to the wanderings of some post-apocalyptic nomad perusing the destroyed, rotting streets of the world we once knew. Buy and hit the play button and once that Swedish kickbeat comes in… well, scramble for that lighter buddy, it’s going to be a grim fucking night.

Track Listing
1. Helvetestoner
2. Dopt I Oheligt Vatten
3. Afsked
4. Andalykt
5. Doden Styr Livet
6. Gravgaardspsalm
7. Afgrundsvisioner
8. Otfaerd