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Immortal - All Shall Fall
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Release date: 25 September 2009
Style: Black metal

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01. All Shall Fall
02. The Rise Of Darkness
03. Hordes To War
04. Norden On Fire
05. Arctic Swarm
06. Mount North
07. Unearthly Kingdom

The Best Black Metal Album Of 2009
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Line-up
Olve "Abbath Doom Occulta" Eikemo - vocals, guitars
Reidar "Horgh" Horghagen - drums
Ole Jørgen "Apollyon" Moe - bass

Additional info
Produced by Peter Tägtgren and Immortal.
Intro to Unearthly Kingdom by Are Mundal.

September 25th: Europe
October 6th: North America

Staff review by
Baz Anderson
Rating:
9.0
Immortal have risen from the white ashes to reclaim their throne as kings of black metal. Not many bands have been as important to a genre of music than Immortal have been to black metal over the years. Now the band are back with their first album in seven years, All Shall Fall.

The album carries on exactly where Sons Of Northern Darkness finished. Stylistically All Shall Fall is extremely similar, the guitars are very melodic and as a whole the album stays at the same familiar pressing pace without going overboard. The frostbitten trio show no signs of cobwebs, but there is also no apparent attempt to create something truly spectacular. All Shall Fall, although a brilliant come-back album, is a bit too steady and safe to be hailed as one of the band's greatest works.

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published 27.09.2009 | Comments (106)

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05.11.2012 - 22:46
JÄY
Metal slave
Lost some of the awesome thrashiness that made Immortal so good and replaced it with generic melodic black
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27.11.2013 - 02:16
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Not bad at all, onky what is different is album artwork, otherwise its Immortal(maybe litle bit thrashy sound)
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Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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07.10.2015 - 17:10
Rating: 8
Deadmeat
Necrobutcher
Average... they have done better int he past..
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Υou've sold your human essence to the cold world of dead and empty things... You're SOLD!
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21.06.2016 - 14:23
Rating: 5
Ditendra
Not as good as their other albums.
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11.04.2018 - 17:49
Rating: 8
musicalkaratekid
Preferred this by a margin to Sons of Northern Darkness. I say by a margin because there's not a whole lot in it, maybe that to me the predecessor is slightly bottom-heavy whereas All Shall Fall is more consistent in its track placements. The title track and very Bathory-esque "Hordes to War" for example are explosive, energetic and definitely display the band's thrashier side. On the flipside, closer "Unearthly Kingdom" is more melodic, bit of a slow-burner but has brilliant riff work throughout. Wonder if we'll ever get another Immortal album. If not, All Shall Fall will be one hell of a way to bow out.
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07.06.2019 - 15:52
The Entity
Very underrated album IMO, it gets lot of shit but I love the variety and atmosphere it displays. Even after 10 years it feels "fresh"
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Industrial / Cosmic Black Metal
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08.06.2019 - 19:58
Rating: 7
Metren
Chameleon
Not sure about "underrated", this is Immortal after all. But yeah, this is a good album. I used to consider it something of an autopilot work, but that opinion has changed into one much more appreciative over the years.
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I am not nor have I ever been a musician or a member of a one-man band, especially a band that has a name that starts with "D".
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08.12.2019 - 16:34
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Metren on 08.06.2019 at 19:58

Not sure about "underrated", this is Immortal after all. But yeah, this is a good album. I used to consider it something of an autopilot work, but that opinion has changed into one much more appreciative over the years.


I re listen it I didnt like when it wa sout, now its decent peace, its Immortal and their trademark, maybe not hit songs to remember (yes Immortal has those) but decent album whit own Immortal sound.
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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27.02.2021 - 13:30
Rating: 9
Spacerunner
I gave a careful re-listen to the albums from 1999 onward and while "At the Heart of Winter" is unbeaten, this one is my second favorite. It has all the goods from the 1999-2002 trio with a cool "Between Two Worlds" admix. Songs are memorable and catchy, with lots of highlights. If they did just another "Sons" it would be the same moans "What were you doing for the past 7 years, it's all the same, the band is stuck" and so on. This is a bit different and aged very well. Much pleasure!
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