I intend to post alot more on this blog, but the reviews are going to be shorter and more to the point. I will be obsessively listening to every album on my iTunes, posting my thoughts and rating each one. I'm tired of trying to write long reviews to post on Encyclopedia Metallum, since I never read the overlong bulk of reviews that site has to offer and skip to the shorter ones, anyway. Only really talented writers can successfully pull off an ineresting long review, and I am not one of them, and most of what's posted on there is tedious crap. I've had quite a few accepted, but their acceptance criteria is sketchy and arbitrary. So far, I've used this blog as a place to workshop my reviews for that site, but fuck it, they will stand alone from now on. Enough whining.
And now with the first album, The Black Metal semi-classic from 1995, 'Orkblut - The Retaliation', by Abigor. It is scalding, but short, collection of black metal songs sandwiched between shorter instrumentals. The production is rather thin, the acoustic and keyboard sections sounding much clearer and three dimensional . The song "Battlefield Orphans" is fucking crazy, a Viking metal blast that hints at the avante gard leanings of later albums. Otherwise you will find cold, blasting but standard issue black metal.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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