Description

During the pinnacle of black metal there were a bunch of black metal bands emerging suddenly out from nowhere, all bearing similar imagery, idealism, and aesthetics. In most cases, particularly in Norway, the bands had either broken loose from their past death metal efforts, or were just forming from scratch, creating or attempting to create this relatively new style of music, for very similar reasons. Most if not all of the earliest bands writing this style are very well known today, because of the fact that they basically reconstructed the 80’s first wave into an entire new form of black metal. However, some of the bands that came a few years later were just too late for the initial explosion, but not too late to be considered third wave rip-offs. Stavanger band Gehenna are one of those bands. ‘Gehenna’ is the word for jewish hell or purgatory. After ‘Malice’ the band went through some changes. The fourth album ‘Adimiron Black’ is the first on Moonfog productions, its also the first album to features the 122 Stabwounds/Forlorn drummer Blod and Penitent/Vindsval keyboard player Damien. This recording also marks a different sound for Gehenna, as this record is more and heavier death metal influences. Its a very good album if you like your death metal a bit atmospheric. They use the keys in all the right moments, creating a really bleak and negative soundscape. The negativity that Gehenna creates is very good. With ‘Admiron Black’ there reinventing the wheel by putting their souls into the album. The cover art on ‘Admirion Black’ is by Petter Hegre, a Norwegian photographer, most famous for his nude photographs of women. Track list: 1. The Killing Kind 2. Deadlights 3. Adimiron Black 4. Seed of Man's Destruction 5. Devils Work 6. Slowly Being Poisoned 7. Eater of The Dead