Immortal, however, arose to the world of the living again with the, among fans well-received, comeback album “All Shall Fall” in 2009. After the last album of that era, the successful “Sons of Northern Darkness”, an album that, for a band still considered as “true”, reached unsuspected popularity even outside the Black Metal-sphere, Abbath shocked their growing fan base by announcing that the band suddenly, and due to personal reasons, was dissolved. Immortal adopted an increasingly epic form and with that, became a little more accessible on the following three albums to come. An era which became their most successful period up until now. Immortal however survived this ordeal, and with remaining original member “Abbath Doom Occulta” at the helm, Demonaz taking a step back concentrating on writing the lyrics for the band, a new era of Immortal begun.
Immortal then continued their journey on the same path with the, albeit a bit more epic, also great “Battles of The North”.Īfter that, the story seemed to have come to an end, with the release of the fan dividing, either love or hate, “Morbid Angel goes Black Metal”-sounding, album “Blizzard Beasts”, as one of the principal members and co-founder of the band, guitarist “Demonaz Doom Occulta” suffered severe tendonitis in his arm and thus could no longer deliver the fast and complex guitars Immortals music demanded.
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Releasing their first full length album as early as 1991, the more or less genre-defining “Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism”, they immediately set the expectations high and then peaked early in the career with the sequel, the whirlwind phased “Pure Holocaust”, setting the standard on how fast and brutal Black Metal should be delivered. Immortals road to the top of the snow-covered mountain peaks have been a quite winding path, lined with hinders and obstacles, but with their ice cold take on Black Metal they have, even though never sharing either the religious or ideological aspect of their contemporary genre colleagues, always been counted as a core group in the second wave of Black Metal.
Instead leaning primarily on the feral, speed-orientated riffing of Immortal’s earlier material, Northern Chaos Gods ensnares that youthful barbarism and chucks it into the grandiose, grimmer-than-thou templates previously explored on At The Heart Of Winter and All Shall Fall.With the release of “Northern Chaos Gods”, Immortal make their best to live up to their name and returns from the realm of the dead to show that, once again, this band is something to be counted with, even after death! With this album Immortal make their third reboot, and delivers one of the stronger albums in the later part of the Immortal discography! Yeah, the lack of Abbath’s guitar proffers a slightly less textured experience tonally, but that doesn’t hinder the band at all. Although operating in a similar, croaky register to his predecessor, this is no second-rate imitation job Where Mountains Rise’s entire vocal track is among the catchiest Immortal have ever conceived.Īs for the music on the whole? Immortal are still the sons of northern darkness, the undisputed kings of icy black metal. As the title track opens proceedings, pummelling onward with Horgh’s arse-ripping percussion, Demonaz’s narratives spew forth seamlessly. Nine years have passed since reunion record All Shall Fall, and it’s clear that Immortal got sick of waiting.
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