This comes of sounding by far more raw and aggressive then their demo did, which in my book is a good thing, but not the usual path of a band after getting a deal, but then again they are on Necropolis who mostly deals with the rawer types of black metal. Demonic however being rawer then their demo (I am talking about the "Når Mørket Faller" and not the "Lead Us Into Darkness" demo they as I have been told also did... if they are not the same I am not quite sure...) doesn't make them extremely raw, they still play somewhat harmonic riffs, and I'd say Darkthrone has been a large influence on this, although they play faster then Darkthrone does they have a similar riff structure and composition. They also utilize keyboards, but as an up side it is not to prominent in the sound, it is merely a background instrument. All in all it is a above average album, but a bit dull and generic, so although above average not far above average. It leaves me feeling very little, so as a piece of black metal it has failed, as a piece of music it can be heard without much thought required, as good as so many others for background music, while doing something unrelated.

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