You can't really go wrong with (early at least) Eminenz. "The Heretic" is a bit different then what I was used to, but the band is just so fucking great at coming up with the right sort of dark atmosphere that you can't help but listen to them.

Legends in many ways - and the only band to play with the 'true' and 'new' (fucking shite that is) Mayhem, the band has managed to stay obscure forever it seems. And it really is BLACK metal that they come up with - slow riffs, screaming vocals, and deep keyboards underneath everything. The first track to the album is the best: it builds up at a rapid rate, but then quickly drops off into a near ambient mix of vocals, keyboards, and guitars. All played at a dead slow pace of course.

Fucking with the final mix to finish off the album was a distracting choice on their part, but it would be unfair to insult the album just for that...

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