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INFERNAL BATTLESDeathspell OmegaTech/Extreme Prog Metal2.15 | 30 ratings |
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Special Collaborator PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic |
INFERNAL BATTLES is the first full release by DEATHSPELL OMEGA, well sort of. The fact is that the
last four tracks are actually those from the previous demo release "Disciples Of The Ultimate Void."
Not even re-recorded but merely available on CD. The first four tracks are new but I would probably
deem this to be classified as an EP. At this early stage the band was far from its experimental and
progressive brilliance that fully developed a few short years later. On this album we hear an
anachronistic old school black metal sound that is almost a decade too late. While the demo tracks
are extremely lo-fi in the vein of Darkthrone with Summoning screams and wails, the new tracks are
clearly better produced and sound more like an early Darkthrone album both instrumentally and
vocally and although they are still dirty filthy black metal it at least it doesn't sound like it
was recorded in someone's garage. I'm really not sure why a band that obviously plays so very well musically would offer up so little in the terms of creativity. Are they showing us here what their intents are for the future? That meaning they wish to capture the spirit of the early Satanic black metal from the past by offering this lo-fi by the numbers offering only to dazzle us with a huge leap in a short time later? Who knows but I have to say this is not a bad album. If this HAD come out 10 years prior it would be well respected. While there is nothing on this album that would interest non-harcore fans of aggressive and highly distorted old school black metal, it is true that if that is a style you really, really love then this release is something you will probably find appealing, however.... this really is derivative to the point that they should have just called themselves "Darkclone."
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