Gorgoroth - Pentagram - guest review
Gorgoroth - Pentagram - guest review
Tracklist
01. Begravelsesnatt02. Crushing The Scepter (Regaining A Lost Dominion)
03. Ritual
04. Drømmer Om Død
05. Katharinas Bortgang
06. Huldrelokk
07. (Under) The Pagan Megalith
08. Måneskyggens Slave
Guest review by
Prugor April 16, 2004
This album does use a lot of the underground qualities of the Norwegian Black Metal Scene, intense, fast, and over all obscure, it captures exactly what the band was trying to do at the time. Make pure Black Metal. The vocals are the best part of this recording, they are raspy, growled, and often sound like the wicked witch of the west assaulting those poor munchkins. At this time, it was Hat doing the vocals for Gorgoroth, Goatperverter was doing the drum work, Samoth was doing bass, and the only original member left to date, Infernus is doing the guitar licks. Which, I might add, the guitar work is pretty decent, even for a lower quality recording such as this one. Another strong point of this album is the fact that it rarely changes, it keeps its consistency with each song and doesn't loose it's self in a flurry of harmonic misshapenness. Thought sometimes that might be an annoying and characterless trait, for this band and their first major release, it was a strong and valid point in their style, which later would be a stable point for their musical careers.
Here comes the ass-kissing part, my personal favorites of this album. As I said earlier, I like the consistency and the repetition. It makes for a good listen when you want intense, speed driven, and raw black metal at its best. Another part that I find interesting is how Infernus uses the guitar, its fitting and its grinding, even then when he was younger, he knew how to play his instrument and how to horn his skills. In this day and age, that something very hard to do.
Written by Prugor | April 16, 2004
Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Great album, the two following the album are also my favored Gorgoroth releases. And I just love the raw production...
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very good black metal work, but its too short, not even 30 min (the same for Antichrist)... anyway, its about quality, and in that requirement its almost perfect 
----  ---- member of the true crusade against old school heavy metal, early 80s thrash, NWOBHM, traditional doom, first and second wave black metal, old school death metal, US power metal, 70s prog rock and atmospheric doomsludgestoner. o/
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7.5? So very unfair.... I don't know about you guys, but I fell in love with this album when I first heard it about 3 years ago, and still think it's one of the best things that ever happened to Black Metal.
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Very well written review. edit. except in the last senentce its hone not horn 
---- Written by Dangerboner on 02.11.2009 at 08:11
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Knocking a Norwegian black metal release from 1994 for poor production is like knocking Nirvana's Nevermind for lack of guitar solos. ....and I wish albums were still too short.......R.I.P. "Reign in Blood". Fucking even AC/DC puts out 15 song albums now. I guess the kids like filler.
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