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Incipit Satan

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by Leslie Mathew

Black metal doesn't get any more dyed in the wool than Gorgoroth. Incipit Sathanas is a blast of prime evil that recalls the glory days when Bathory and Mayhem were busy conspiring to turn all of Scandinavia into an outpost of Hades. Flaunting the par-for-the-course Nietzsche influences on their chain mail-clad sleeves (the German philosopher is thanked in the credits, along with Burzum and Baudelaire), Gorgoroth kicks up a racket like hell on steel wheels. They trade primarily in ferocity, not speed. That said, the title track, which opens the album, erupts with a thundering drum-and-guitar blast so elemental it peels the skin from your face. Vocalist Gaahl can shriek like a harpy and growl like Satan with a head cold, and often he can do both at the same time. The thing about » Read more

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Releases

Year Type label Catalog #
2000 CD Nuclear Blast
2000 CD Nuclear Blast 6423
2006 CD Nuclear Blast
2006 LP Candlelight Records 00038
2009 LP Back on Black 126