what's the consensus on these guys?
i quite like them. quasi-extreme metal with plenty of hooks and a good knack for constructing a song. bummed out about selling my copy of 'ceremony of opposites'. that record had a blistering opening track, but had a little bit too much of an homogeneous feel overall.
everything that followed was good. particularly the record that featured 'rain' and 'shining kingdom'
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)
to me they definately peaked with 'ceremony of opposites' - a sheer masterpiece in all its grooviness. i hugely prefer their (all awesome) first three albums worth of mid-paced celtic frost-type black metal to what they're doing nowadays, anyway... the few times any of their post-ceremony stuff has grabbed my attention at all, has been whenever a portion of a song harks back to their old sound :(
― saxomophone, Thursday, 16 August 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)
siegbran to thread
― chaki, Thursday, 16 August 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)
I sold a ton of my old metal cd's recently and listened to whatever track they had on one of those Century Media comps. It was pretty alright, black metal w/beats.
― Jordan, Thursday, 16 August 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)
i do feel that they got a bit clever later in their career - trying to integrate a whole bunch of genres into a metal backdrop.
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 17 August 2007 04:46 (eighteen years ago)
I've been loving Worship Him and Blood Ritual lately, having picked up a CD two-fer with both of those early records of theirs. I love the sort of stripped-down mid-tempo character--not at all flashy or over-the-top, just really dark and thick. It reminds me of some of the slower parts of early Burzum, or of the slow parts of De Mysteriis-era Mayhem without the insane drumming. And, of course, Celtic Frost. I feel like they aren't talked about very much, a feeling that this five-post thread confirms... That should change! I don't know anything about what came after these records, though.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 10 January 2013 01:40 (thirteen years ago)
They're definitely an underrated band, at least early on. Never really got into the later industrial stuff.
You should check out Anael's "Necromantic Rituals," they're almost a tribute band to early Samael.
― Yo Leon, what's this all about? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 10 January 2013 04:18 (thirteen years ago)
Ceremony Of Opposites is one of the all time greatest Metal records, get that one asap. Totally rocks yr socks off.
The first two records are really good but got totally snowed under when BM went a totally different direction (fast/trebly). In a way they fitted in more with the Italian and Greek bands of the time, all obscure, thick, recorded-in-a-crypt style music styled after Celtic Frost rather than Bathory.
― Siegbran, Friday, 11 January 2013 21:35 (thirteen years ago)
^^^ Exactly. I love that weird occult-y Mediterranean stuff. Not many bands really picked up on that style, it seems like?
― Yo Leon, what's this all about? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 12 January 2013 05:09 (thirteen years ago)